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[13.5/?]

By the time he reaches his peak, he’s unable to articulate himself. He can’t give a warning beyond the low, rumbly groan that starts deep in his chest and bursts forth desperately from his lungs. He’s fully knotted now. He can no longer move, no longer speak, and no longer do anything at all beyond enjoy and endure the slick, wet grip around his thick cock as he unloads wave after wave of hot, gushing cum deep within Tweek’s insides. He can feel the lewd sloshing of it all around his length as it pools in his guts. A satisfying tickle along his empty balls lets him know he’s filled him so full, it’s spilling out despite the knot locking them together. Eventually, Craig collapses in a heap on top of Tweek’s ruined body.

“Mmmm,” Tweek moans pleasantly and rolls his hips to adjust for the huge knots buried between his walls.

Their arms tangle around each other, shaking and weak from the ongoing efforts. Craig’s mouth works of its own volition and peppers any part of Tweek’s salty, sweaty body it can find with delicate yet sloppy kisses. The endorphins of the afterglow make him feel pleasantly affectionate and he revels in it until eventually, he begins to unwind.

And then everything begins to sink in.

Reality sets in. His eyes bulge. His muscles clench.

Oh, fuck.

(Oh shit, this is the fucky chapter and I slightly exceeded the maximum word count so now this chapter is weirdly broken into two parts, sorry!!!!) ((Also there's probably lots and lots of grammatical errors in these two, double sorry!!!!!))

[14/?]

“I’m sorry, maybe I didn’t hear you right. You did WHAT?”

It’s been a bit longer than a full day since Craig snapped out of his stupor and had a flash of clarity. And, it’s been a little less than that since he loaned Tweek a set of sweats to wear once they were able to tear their bodies from each other, and approximately less time even still since he walked him to his dorm room. He spent an indeterminable amount of time alternating between staring at the ceiling and pacing nervously. There are a few blank spots in that time frame, too, so he figures he probably inadvertently fell asleep for a brief spell here and there. It’s been around half a day since he returned to the shower room, but this time he actually took a normal shower (the kind with soap and hot water and absolutely no grinding on acquaintances). After that, Craig’s first class of the day was due to begin. But like the handful of days leading up to that moment, he didn’t attend it. He wasted a bit more time fretting and procrastinating sending a handful of emails to explain his absence and instead spent his afternoon taking a bus off campus to purchase a new phone since he managed to break his old one. It’s been a few hours since he returned to the ghastly state of his single-sized dormitory apartment. He spent a while mindlessly shuffling around, collecting the tattered ruins of his life and cleaning up the various broken items and stained linens. And now, it’s been approximately 5 minutes since he gathered the courage to call his mother and disclose the sordid events of the last handful of days.

“Craig,” she states his name sternly and it resonates in an unpleasant and tinny way through the receiver, but it’s laced with the type of concern any mother might have for her only son. “Tell me I didn’t hear what I think I just heard.”

Craig groans and runs a hand down his face. He can feel his body giving out on itself so he sits down on the edge of his crappy couch. He leans forward so his elbows prop themselves on his lap.

“I didn’t stutter,” he challenges her.

It’s rude and it’s defensive, and he knows that. But he can’t bring himself to repeat what he just confessed. It’s bad enough that he had to say it once. She clucks her tongue from the other end of the line. It’s clear she’s disappointed. He shrinks in on himself. It’s a weird feeling, truthfully. It’s a little bit shameful and humiliating, but also it’s frustrating and he’s quite a bit on edge. It’s not like his mom is the one with the problem– it’s his own burden to bear in the end.

“Well,” she begins again, cautiously. “Beta or omega?”

Craig groans but manages to mutter, “Omega.”

“Craig, are you serious?! An omega. Really? You know you definitely just got that poor thing pregnant,” she wastes no time in berating him.

“Mom!” Craig yelps.

It’s fucking embarrassing to hear her announce factual things like this. He stomps his foot petulantly and tears his old, worn hat from his head just to have the satisfaction of flinging it to the ground. He really doesn’t have a defensible argument here. He knows what he did. In fact, he’s pretty much the main guy who knows what he did. Whether he felt like himself or not, he’s the very person who went into an unmitigated rut. He’s the one who went out into the world with his big stupid boner and he’s the one who went prowling. Craig himself is the one who found an unchecked omega in heat, brought him back to his room, built a nest, and then succinctly fucked him into completion. He’s the one who felt the cum leak out of that plush, slippery ass and he’s the one whose knot remained tethered until the swelling went down. She signed his school papers and knows as well as he does that he attended his sexual health and education classes. They both know that Craig knows exactly how the act of getting pregnant works. She doesn’t have to rub it in and make him feel worse about it.

“I’m putting you on speaker,” she snips.

“Mom, no-”

But it’s too late for rebuttals. She’s already shouting across the house to get his father to join in on the conversation.

“Thomas! Thomas, get in here right now!”

There’s a clamor and then Craig’s father’s voice chimes in a bit distantly. Craig can hear that he’s breathless from rushing to the scene, but he can’t quite make out the first thing he says.

“It’s your asshole son on the phone,” she says, almost dismissively but not quite.

“My asshole son?” Thomas huffs suspiciously. “What the hell did the boy do this time?! He’s only ‘my son' when he’s done something!”

Craig can very nearly see both of their angry faces in his mind’s eye.

“Tell him what you did, Craig,” his mother practically dares him. “Go on, tell him, you little shit.”

Craig can only moan like a dying animal. He wishes a hole would open in the ground and he could just vanish inside it forever.

“He had unprotected sex,” she states as a matter of fact when Craig has taken too long to incriminate himself.

“It wasn’t with another alpha, was it?” Thomas accuses him immediately.

“What?” Craig perks up at that, bewildered. “No? No, it was an omega!”

“Okay, good,” Thomas says as if that were genuinely his biggest concern and he’s been placated.

“Good?! Thomas, are you fucking serious? Your son just told you he had unprotected sex with an omega!”

“Oh.”

“Don’t just say ‘oh’! This is serious!”

“Well damn it, Laura! What did you expect?! He’s a big strong alpha! He’s supposed to have sex with omegas!”

“Unprotected sex, Thomas!” Laura emphasizes.

Craig wishes they would stop acting like he committed a series of heinous crimes. He knows he’s in trouble, but they’re really overreacting here. There’s a shuffle as his father grabs the cell phone to speak more clearly into it.

“Did you knot, son?” Thomas asks him sincerely. “Did you, uh, plant your seeds, so to say?”

Craig is absolutely mortified. He drops his brand new phone on his lap and grabs a couch cushion to scream into it. He’s pretty sure he’s in hell. After a moment, he picks up the phone again and it’s clear his parents have been bickering for a few moments in his brief absence from the call.

“Craig,” Laura has changed her tune and now attempts to speak to him a bit more softly. “Please tell me it’s at least someone you care about.”

Something jolts straight through Craig’s chest at those words. He sits straight up in his seat and a strange feeling washes over him. Honestly, he doesn’t have a good answer to that question. Because on the one hand, how could he possibly care about someone he hardly knows? That’s a ridiculous notion. But then again, on the other hand, there was undeniably something remarkable between them. Craig would absolutely be lying to himself if he said what he felt the other night was strictly the result of raging hormones and his instinctual biological imperative. He isn’t sure what to make of it. He is, however, sure that that encounter was notably different from his previous string of cheap, quick fucks. His palms feel a bit sweaty all of a sudden and it’s a real challenge to grip his phone. The answer won’t come easily, so he attempts to speak cautiously and keep things vague for now.

“Uh, well…” Craig steadies his voice. “I know him from a few classes we have together.”

“Him?” Laura hones in on that part of the sentence. “Craig, c’mon. Him? God damn it. I should have known. It’s always a male omega. Every time you hear one of these stories about an accidental pregnancy, it’s a male omega. I taught you better than this, Craig.”

“You’re kind of being an asshole, Mom,” Craig grouses.

“How does it feel to be a statistic, Craig?” Laura drives home her prejudiced point.

“Fine,” Craig says defiantly.

She grumbles, clearly irate that her old-world views have no real bearing on Craig. Once again, she tries a new angle.

“What’s his name,” she sighs and asks out of politeness rather than genuine questioning.

“Tweek,” Craig answers the first easy question of this horrible discussion.

“That’s an odd name,” Thomas grunts in disapproval. “And you’re sure he’s not an alpha?”

“Yes, Dad, I’m sure he’s not a fucking alpha,” Craig rolls his eyes even though neither of them can see him.

“Well,” Thomas pauses thoughtfully. “What’s he look like?”

A thousand images race through Craig’s mind. The memories flood back in alarming succession. He’s shorter than Craig, but at his height, that’s pretty much a given. He’s slim, but not scrawny. He has the well-sculpted muscles of an athlete despite the demeanor of a cornered rodent. His eyes hold a unique sadness that Craig supposes he doesn’t even realize he broadcasts to anyone who might take the time to really look into them. Maybe Craig is the only one who can see it. Maybe Craig is the only one who cares. Craig’s chest clenches involuntarily at that notion. Tweek’s lips are chapped, and Craig’s not really sure if they’re uneven or if he just twitches and chews on them so frequently it’s impossible to see them properly. He is sure, though, about their warmth and the way his body felt so right when those scratchy lips pressed hard into his own. It takes a moment, but Craig snaps back to reality. His father asked him a question and instead of responding, he started daydreaming like a weirdo.

“He’s, uh, he’s blonde?” Craig decides to give a simple answer.

“Atta boy!” Thomas practically cheers. “No Tucker can resist a blonde! Isn’t that right, Laura?”

“Thomas, this isn’t helping!” Laura scolds him. “Can you just leave and let me speak with my son?”

“You’re the one who called me over!”

“Thomas…” she warns him.

“Good to see he’s your son again,” his father scoffs, but the distinctive sound of his stomping feet lets Craig know he was an obedient husband and it’s just himself and his mother once again.

An uncomfortable silence between them lingers in the air for more than a few moments. Craig has no idea how to proceed with the conversation, so he holds his tongue. His mother’s presence is only confirmed by her thoughtful, measured breathing into the receiver. It feels like an eternity passes before she speaks again.

“Craig…” she starts slowly, and it’s clear she’s trying her best not to berate him any further. “What are you going to do now?”

Craig heaves a ragged sigh. He slumps back into the wall of the couch. It’s a simple question at face value. And yet, it’s the most complicated question he’s ever been asked in his entire life. There are realistically only a few options on the table. None of them are particularly palatable. His eyes dart back and forth as he mulls each one over, attempting to speed-run the possibilities and outcomes of every choice in his mind. Ultimately, he’s at a loss here. He’s the type of guy who always has some kind of logic to follow or some kind of fix for whatever problem he’s faced with. Now, that’s not the case at all.

“I have no idea,” he finally admits.

Those words aren’t easy to say. He feels small and helpless. It’s foreign and scary. It’s unsettling.

“Well,” she clucks her tongue. “In the end, I can’t tell you what to do.”

He nods in understanding, even though she can’t see him.

“Lord knows I’ve tried telling you what to do in the past, and look where that’s gotten us,” she continues, and while the words themselves have a bite there’s a bit of a tongue-in-cheek quality to them that manages to lighten the mood if only a little bit. “I don’t know Tweek. And maybe you don’t either.”

“I know him a little,” Craig injects, but it sounds flimsier than he’d hoped.

“But I know you,” she avoids his attempt to derail and presses on. “And even though you’re a little asshole, you’re my son. No matter what you do, I’ll still love you. I just hope that you’ll do the right thing.”

He’s struck by that. His eyebrows knit together and his jaw tightens. It’s supportive, but that hardly gives him any substantial guidance.

“What’s the right thing?” Craig asks, just above a whisper.

“You tell me,” she says airily, as though she’s commenting on the weather.

“What if I don’t know what the right thing is?”

“You’ll know, Craig,” Laura affirms him.

He feels simultaneously hopeless and confident. Or maybe that’s not what it is. Oddly enough, it’s starting to sink in. He feels supported. And for that much, he’s grateful.

“Okay,” he agrees in that same small voice.

“And Craig?”

“Yeah?”

“I meant it,” his mother speaks with a tenderness he’s rarely heard from her in all his life. “I’ll still love you.”

“I love you, too, Mom,” Craig slurs the words together awkwardly.

With that, she hangs up and the line goes dead. Once again, Craig sits alone in the silence with nothing but his own terrible, crushing thoughts. He still doesn’t know what to do. He doesn’t know how he’s supposed to feel. Frozen in place on the edge of the world’s most uncomfortable couch, Craig weighs his options. How is he supposed to discern right from wrong here? He knows he’s made an egregious error, but he also knows he can only be held culpable to a certain extent. But in the end, blame and guilt are largely irrelevant concepts at play. Responsibility is the next step here, but Craig is still uncertain about what that entails.

It’s a very long time before he feels able to peel himself from where he sits, but when he does, it’s a simple yet profound thought that pulls him from his pool of selfish misery. It took two people to get into this mess. Logically, he thinks, it should take those same two people to reason their way back out of it. He hasn’t spoken to Tweek since he so chivalrously walked him home after blasting him full of cum. Craig cringes at the thought. Probably the best course of action is to just talk to this guy. After all, how hard can a conversation about that night be? They did the deed, and now they should address it. Craig feels like his stomach is full of butterflies, except all the butterflies are vomiting inside him. Maybe it’s the right thing to do. Maybe his mother was right and this gross, queasy feeling is the confirmation. At the very least, he’s pretty sure talking to Tweek can’t make anything worse. He lets his fear warp into invigoration as he rises from the couch and starts the search for a matching pair of shoes. For the first time in his life, he decides not to allow his status as an alpha feel like a burden. Craig willfully and unquestionably makes the firm decision in his mind to do the right thing.

[15/?] (This one also went over the word limit so it's a two-parter again)

It’s a short walk from the wooden door of Craig’s room to the heavy metal doors that lead towards the courtyard. He pushes them open and takes in a deep breath of the cool air. Everything seems duller than it did a few days ago. The leaves on the trees are less vibrant, the aromas that hang in the air are less fragrant, and even the air itself feels less oppressive on his skin. Craig couldn’t be more relieved. It’s a strange sort of relief, though, because even though in so many ways he physically feels better now that his rut has abated, he is teeming with a new kind of emotional distress he’s never experienced before. Ironically, it’s so all-encompassing it’s wrapped back around into physical discomfort. Nervous energy manifests low in his belly and swishes around inside him, making his skin feel tight like it’s crawling. His joints feel stiff too, but in all honesty that might be from the strain of his previous physical activities and then his complete inability to relax ever since then. Nevertheless, he plods one foot in front of the other along the concrete walkway.

Tweek actually resides in the same dormitory building, he came to learn the other day. But due to the nature of the shape of their building, it’s actually a quicker journey to cut through the courtyard to walk from one room to the other. He pays little attention to the manicured garden or the supposedly inspirational statues that are adorned with academic quotes etched upon them. He’s much too distracted. Not that he’s thinking about much, however. In fact, he has very little going in the way of a plan of action. His entire thought process was to essentially force his legs to carry him all the way back to Tweek’s room, knock on the door, and then sort of wing it from there. He didn’t want to dawdle on plotting out the details for the very genuine fear that he’d lose his gumption if he paused to think too hard. So for now, he walks. No thoughts, no distractions, only the singular task of initiating an open discussion with the poor omega he carelessly knocked up. He cringes and decides that’s a shitty way to think about it. He corrects himself. He’s going to initiate an open discussion with Tweek. He’s an individual. When he arrives, he hesitates. His mouth feels strangely dry and his palms feel strangely wet. Craig stares at the door for at least two solid minutes before he moves. Two minutes isn’t a very long time, but it’s certainly too long to be standing paralyzed while staring at a door. He forces his knuckles to firmly tap the door identical to his own three times. And then he waits.

Nothing happens. He’s getting more and more anxious. Part of him wants to turn on his heels and book it back the way he came, but a stronger part of him plants himself squarely in front of the door and refuses to move until the door opens. It feels like an eternity, but it’s really only another minute or two until Craig can hear some kind of commotion from the other side of the door. There are a few small crashing sounds and heavy footsteps, and then the distinctive sound of multiple locks turning. The door creaks open just a few inches, but Craig can see a mess of blonde hair through the empty space. His breath hitches and his heart does a cartwheel.

“Yeah?”

A voice speaks to him through the door and in an instant, Craig’s heartbeat quickens. It’s not from excitement but from fear. And further still, it’s not from the fear of having a heavy discussion with an acquaintance-turned-sex-partner, but from the fact that the voice speaking to him distinctly does not belong to Tweek. The door opens a bit further and Craig gets a full view of the person addressing him. He’s blonde, sure, but the rest is different. Craig looks ahead to the smiling face with a chipped tooth and downturned eyes.

“You’re not Tweek,” Craig states stupidly, and without a filter.

“Nice to see you, too, Tucker,” the imposter blonde clucks his tongue. “What brings you to my humble abode?”

The sentence doesn’t register right away in Craig’s mind. He’s too startled and distraught.

“What are you doing in Tweek’s dorm, Kenny?” Craig frowns, confusion plastered on his features.

“Uh,” Kenny scratches the back of his neck, clearly just as confused as Craig. “I just told you I live here, dude?”

“Tweek has a roommate?” Craig’s voice, unfortunately, goes up an octave in his sudden panic.

If he was nervous before, he’s bordering on a full-blown panic now. Dozens of thoughts race through his mind. It’s been nearly two full days since he dropped Tweek back at this very door. So much can happen in that span of time. What if Tweek told his roommate everything? What does Kenny know? Can Kenny keep a secret? Does Tweek trust Kenny? Is Tweek close to Kenny? Does Kenny know Tweek is officially an omega? Craig feels queasy. He can feel the color drain from his face. Kenny scrutinizes him for a moment and frowns before taking a cautious step forward.

“You doing okay there, Craig? Did something happen?” Kenny drops his cavalier attitude and takes one of much more genuine concern.

“No, I just need to talk to Tweek,” Craig says flatly, both lying and telling the truth all at once.

“Ah,” Kenny nods, but it’s apparent he knows something is fishy. “He’s not here right now. You don’t look so good. Wanna come inside and sit down for a minute?”

“No,” Craig scoffs as if the idea is ridiculous. “I just need to talk to Tweek. Do you know where he is?”

“Yeah, he’s at work,” Kenny shrugs.

Craig stares at him vacantly. He didn’t know Tweek had a job. He definitely doesn’t know where he works. Kenny stares back at him. This is so fucking awkward.

“At the coffee shop…?” Kenny finally supplies with a gesture of his hand as though that much were obvious.

Craig knows of at least five different places to get coffee on this stupid campus. That doesn’t narrow the search very much. There’s another awkward beat between them. Kenny looks increasingly concerned, but Craig can’t get out of his own head enough to notice.

“...the one he’s named after? Tweek Bros? Sure you don’t wanna come inside, buddy? You look like shit,” Kenny swings his arm back into the house in something akin to a welcoming motion.

“Fuck off, Kenny,” Craig takes an aggressive form of defense. “I’m not your buddy, you weirdo.”

With that, he turns and pulls out his new phone to plug the walking directions to the coffee shop into his GPS. He channels his tumultuous feelings all into something more condensed and familiar and fixates on actively hating Kenny. Truth be told, he doesn’t actually hate Kenny at all. But focusing on forcing himself to hate him is far easier than untangling the string of complex and foreign emotions he’s faced with instead. Kenny hasn’t done anything except offer him an uncomfortable kindness and point him in the right direction, but even still… Craig scrunches up his face hatefully and flips him off before following the path towards the cafe where he’ll find Tweek.

It’s a short walk, really, and when Craig arrives after his brief yet anguished journey, he realizes he’s actually walked right past this exact place multiple times before. He’s never paid it any mind since he’s never been much of a coffee drinker. It’s a nice storefront, though. There are big glass windowpanes that allow any passersby to catch a glimpse of the welcoming interior adorned with wooden furniture and cozy warm lighting. Even though his senses feel a bit dull right now, he can still smell the inviting aromas of fresh coffee and warm pastries wafting from inside out into the chilly air. On the entryway door, the company logo is plastered on the glass along with thick black letters, spelling out “Tweek” right there on the storefront. It's a wonder he didn't notice before. Craig surreptitiously peers through the window. His chest feels tight and his tongue feels thick when he catches sight of Tweek himself behind the counter. He hasn’t been sighted– Tweek looks preoccupied. It’s now or never, though, so Craig finds his strength and pushes through the door. He’s ready to say something to him, anything at all, whether it be a greeting or an apology or some weird messy monologue about their night together. He’s not ready, however, for the door to have a cute little set of jingling bells that chime the moment he swings open the door.

Naturally, it alerts Tweek right away and he looks up. Their eyes meet in shock and the mug Tweek was holding crashes to the floor and shatters. He screams. Craig winces. Several customers turn their heads and several more shuffle around, only adding to the commotion. Tweek apologizes vaguely to the room at a volume much too loud for a quiet, indoor coffee house. Craig stands in place, less sure than he’s ever been before. To others, it must look like he’s waiting patiently while Tweek gathers the shards with a broom and a wash rag, but in reality, he’s frozen on the spot. An abstract amount of time passes and Tweek emerges from the other side of the counter to get up close to Craig. He’s wearing a logo-branded apron smeared with coffee grounds on top of his usual attire. His hair is the same mess as ever (though there’s a bit of sweat along his hairline), and his eyes are wide and bloodshot.

“What are you doing here?” Tweek hisses in a low voice at Craig, but the tone denotes shock far more than malice.

“Needed to talk to you,” Craig mumbles.

“Hrngh, you couldn’t text?” Tweek’s shoulders slump, though he really isn’t relaxed or relieved.

“I don’t have your number.”

“Oh,” Tweek turns his head away and doesn’t contribute to that thought any further.

Craig is acutely aware of the way his chest is rising and falling erratically. This was a stupid idea. What was he thinking, just showing up unannounced during a work shift like this? He has no dialogue prepared and nothing to offer beyond his disruptive presence. He should leave. This is going extremely poorly. He should turn and run while he still has the chance.

“Maybe this was a bad idea,” he blurts out and starts to turn back to the door.

“Wait!”

Tweek’s hand shoots forward and grabs at his wrist. They both look down to see the abrupt gesture in action. Tweek clings a bit too harshly, but Craig doesn’t pull away. Tweek looks as startled by the action as Craig feels. A fleeting moment flies by and once again, Craig is surprised that Tweek doesn’t want to be left alone. Eventually, Tweek relinquishes his grip and holds onto his own arm instead while shuffling his feet in place.

“I was scared we wouldn’t talk after everything,” Tweek admits, speaking into his chest.

“We should definitely talk,” Craig agrees. “Maybe I shouldn’t have come here, though.”

“Agh! No!” Tweek shakes his hands in disagreement. “No, it’s fine. I’ll just clock out for my break now. Um, ngh, I’ll get us something to drink.”

“Oh,” Craig wasn’t expecting that. “No, uh, I’m fine.”

“No, really,” Tweek insists. “It’s on me. It’s the least I can do.”

Craig winces as Tweek disappears behind an ‘employees only’ door. He feels horrible accepting a gesture of kindness, as though Tweek seems to think he’s the one who has done something wrong in this situation. But the wheels are in motion so Craig is at least grateful that they’ll talk. He spots a secluded little booth near the rear of the cafe, so he drags his feet towards it and plops down to wait. A few minutes elapse and then Tweek scurries back out with two twin mugs in tow. He beelines it towards Craig’s booth, only spilling a little coffee on himself as he goes. He places one for himself, one for Craig, removes his apron and tosses it in a heap, and then slides into the booth. Neither of them speaks, despite the fact that they explicitly agreed to talk about things only a few minutes prior. Craig grips the glossy white handle of the mug and peers into the black liquid. A few brown bubbles sit atop the black coffee, and Craig thinks it’s a little odd that Tweek added a stir stick to the cup even though it’s pretty apparent there’s neither cream nor sugar in the cup. He gives it a stir once or twice anyway.

Tweek’s clearly on edge on the other side of the booth. He grips his mug with both hands, clearly in an attempt to remain steady. If Craig hadn’t seen this exact sort of behavior in their shared classes before, he’d feel doubly guilty for causing this poor guy to seem so unnerved. Eventually, Tweek lifts the mug and takes a hefty gulp from it despite the piping hot temperature. Though it’s a much daintier sip, Craig follows suit. It’s bitter and tastes unpleasant, like sour dirt. He tries to mask his disgust by clearing his throat.

“Guess I should be switching to decaf soon, huh,” Tweek breaks the ice with a flippant comment and a wry chuckle.

This breaks the man and Craig flops forward onto the tabletop in a whiplash of defeat and emotion.

“I’m so sorry,” he gurgles pathetically into the wood.

“Ack! Ah, Craig…!” Tweek flails a bit frantically. “Oh, god… Shit, no, I’m sorry! Argh, blech, what was I thinking? Ugh, fucking stupid, man… Dude, I wasn’t trying to guilt you. Mnph, it’s… it’s not your fault, Craig.”

“It’s kind of literally my fault, dude,” Craig grumbles and doesn’t lift himself from the table.

Tweek reaches forward and gives Craig a couple of the world’s most jittery and awkward pats to the top of his head. Its inefficacy is really punctuated by the fact that Craig’s still wearing his dumb hat. This is terrible.

“Well, I mean, yeah, but…” Tweek weirdly lays his head down on the table to face him. “It’s my fault, too.”

Both of their faces are squished awkwardly on the scratched-up wooden surface, but at this angle, they can look each other in the eyes. This wasn’t at all the reaction Craig expected. He sort of suspected anger or sadness or regret, but while laying face-first on the table and looking into Tweek’s unique eyes all he feels is a tingling, comforting sensation. Somehow being smoosh-faced on the table makes it feel a little more private, even though they’re both decidedly acting very peculiarly in public. It’s just the tiniest bit encouraging. He huffs a little bit and the ghost of a shy smile curls up the outer corners of his lips.

“I’m still sorry, Tweek,” Craig offers, but can’t quite keep eye contact as he talks.

“Me too,” Tweek’s teeth are clattering together and Craig can feel the vibrations through the table on the side of his face. “I feel like… ngh, like I tricked you…”

Craig sits upright at that. Tricked him? How could he feel like that? Craig was the one prowling, and he was the one that brought him back to his room, and, well… everything else after that.

“You didn’t trick me,” Craig insists firmly. “I knew exactly what I was doing.”

“Ha,” Tweek coughs out an ironic laugh and sits up, too. “I knew what I was doing, too.”

They go quiet again and let those words sit in the air. Tweek slurps at his coffee.

“Yeah, but Tweek, it was your first time,” Craig attempts to shoulder the entirety of the blame again.

“Yeah, about that,” Tweek cuts him off and puts down his mug. “Is… hmm. Is it always like that? Where, ah… where you know exactly what you’re doing…? But, agh, you can’t help yourself?”

“Pretty much,” Craig grouses. “I hate it.”

“Hmm…” Tweek muses and runs a finger over the rim of his mug. “Is it wrong if… I didn’t entirely hate it?”

“...oh,” Craig says just for the sake of replying.

[15.5/?]

They both pause for thought, really absorbing that, and then Craig realizes something has not yet been addressed.

“Do… you know for sure?” Craig stumbles awkwardly over the question. “If you’re… y’know. You know.”

“Pregnant?” Tweek blinks and just asks as though it’s not some forbidden word and Craig darts his head around to check if anyone overheard before Tweek presses on. “If you’re asking if I’ve taken a test, ngh, no, I haven’t. But like, Jesus, you were there, man. It’s, hrngh, pretty fucking obvious.”

It was one thing to know intuitively, but it’s quite another to have it sitting right in front of him and speaking openly about it. Everything feels in slow motion and underwater at the same time. There’s a strange persistent ringing in Craig’s ears that won’t go away. When his body realizes it’s been far too long since he’s taken a breath, he sucks in a big gasp of air. The world comes rushing back to him.

“What do we do now?” Craig tries not to wheeze through the reality of the situation.

“Shit, dude,” Tweek clings to his mug. “You think I know?”

Craig stares right at him for probably way too long.

“I didn’t know Kenny is your roommate,” Craig informs him for no reason at all.

He doesn’t know why he said that. Tweek jerks involuntarily.

“Oh, god… Wagh! I didn’t even think of that! What if he finds out?!”

“I mean… he probably will, in a few months,” Craig nods towards Tweek’s midsection.

“Agghh!” Tweek buries his face in his hands. “Dude, what if my parents find out?! Shit, man, they don’t even know I’m an omega… Oh god, what if they do?! My mom has been giving me these weird looks for days! They’re gonna whore me out for profit to make up for all the ceramic ware I keep breaking! Wauuggghhh!”

“Tweek, you’re being, like, way too loud right now,” Craig leans across the table in a futile effort to calm him. “You haven’t told your parents?”

“No! …have you?!”

“Yes.”

“What…what did they say?” Tweek calms himself enough to listen.

“My mom just told me to do the right thing,” Craig scowls.

“What’s the right thing?” Tweek’s eyes are impossibly wide, fixated directly on Craig as if he might suddenly reveal himself as some arcane font of pregnancy knowledge.

“I have no idea,” Craig says for what feels like the millionth time and Tweek crumples a bit. “But… I think it’s something we can figure out. Maybe this is the start of doing the right thing. I don’t know. This is exhausting and I feel like shit.”

Tweek gazes into his empty mug for a while, pondering something mysterious. Then he looks a bit inspired and looks up at Craig with determination.

“Can I come see you after work?”

“Yes,” Craig agrees instantly, then wonders internally why he gave that response without hesitation.

“Okay,” Tweek gives him an uncomfortable but genuine smile. “I should get back to work. I’ll see you then.”

He leaves the booth and Craig sits stunned for a few moments. He feels a bit numb, but it’s not entirely unpleasant. He decides to head back to his dorm. He should really clean it up if he’s expecting company later.

The walk back to the dormitories passes quickly. In the back of his mind, Craig knows the walk is exactly the same length. It’s funny how the preoccupation of his mind with one thing or the other changes his perception of things. Craig’s mind moves faster than his feet but he makes it back into the hallways before he knows it. It’s not that he has dozens of racing thoughts, but rather the same questions rearticulate themselves over and over in his mind. What should he do now? What does this mean going forward? What should he tell Tweek? What’s the right move? It’s all back to the same root problem at hand. The notion spreads its tendrils, though, and perpetuates into a slew of several curiosities he’d like cleared up, too. But he’s not sure where to begin or how to even go about voicing them. Mainly, he just needs some kind of clarity. But even that’s hard to wrap his head around. Everything is so new and weird.

He’s almost back to his room when he catches sight of something that catches him off guard and makes his stomach drop. It’s a mess of blonde curls framing the shape of a familiar face. What the fuck is she doing here? Craig thinks about fleeing since he’s pretty sure she hasn’t seen him yet. His eyes dart around the abandoned otherwise abandoned hallway. It’s pretty clear if he high-tails it out of there, that’ll be more obvious. He doesn’t want to talk to her. They left things on pretty sour terms, and while he barely knows her, he knows enough to suspect she’s the type who wants to make a big song and dance of fixing things up between them (whatever that means). He doesn’t want to confront this right now or ever and he can’t find a clever enough way to abscond, so Craig simply freezes in place like a scared, awkward deer. There are realistically only a few moments before she’ll spot him standing there like a sweaty statue.

“Craig!”

Her voice sounds like glass shattering and makes him wince. He doesn’t move from his spot where his shoes seem to be nailed to the grimy carpet. He doesn’t acknowledge her but he doesn’t shun her, either. In fact, he doesn’t do much at all beyond standing there paralyzed on the spot with discomfort. She crosses the hall and stops about a foot in front of him. It’s hard to read her expression.

“Craig,” she repeats his name a bit softer as she approaches. “We need to talk.”

“Do we?” Craig squeaks out in a dry voice.

There’s an odd pause where they both look at each other with scrunched-up expressions.

“Look, Anna-”

“Annie,” she interjects with a frown.

“Right, Annie,” he nods, corrects himself, and continues. “I know you said you wanted me to be your boyfriend, but-”

“Craig, just stop,” she holds up a hand and looks annoyed. “Before you say anything else, I should save you the embarrassment. I actually came here to tell you it’s over.”

“Oh,” he nods again.

He’s not really sure how something that never started could be over, but he feels a weight leave his shoulders. This problem seems to be resolving itself without much intervention on his end.

“You’re kind of an asshole, Craig,” she states plainly, as though it were an absolute fact. “After the way you treated me, there’s no way I’d want to be your girlfriend. I don’t see how anyone would. I’m here to break up with you.”

Craig can’t hold back a bout of strained chuckles. She frowns deeply. He feels bad for being rude, but he really can’t contain it.

“What’s so funny?” Annie demands.

“Nothing,” Craig manages to get out between the titters. “I’m just kind of relieved, you know?”

“Relieved?!”

“Well, yeah,” he shrugs. “I’m glad we’re finally on the same page here.”

Her eyes look like they might pop out of her head. Craig would feel much more guilty if he’d done more than fuck her. And he’d feel worse, too, if he hadn’t only just confirmed her name. The whole thing had been such a mess, he really and truly can’t bring himself to feel anything beyond a massive sense of alleviation. Never mind about the giant mess he’s preparing himself to face going forward, but at least this one is in the process of wrapping itself up in a neat little package and mailing itself the fuck out of his life.

“Fuck you, Craig,” she says in a small, hurt voice and shoves past him.

He watches her little blonde curls bounce for a moment, then she rounds the corner and out of his sight. That was weird. Craig feels a bit lighter, though. Hopefully, that’s all over. Honestly, he’s a little grateful for that encounter. He actually sort of forgot about that girl entirely, since so many strange and dramatic things occurred in the last handful of days. That and, of course, he didn’t really give a shit about her in the first place. The feeling returns to his limbs since the startle of the situation has abated itself, and he completes his walk back to his single-sized dormitory.

Once inside, he feels drained. Two voices conflict in his head. The first one urges him to clean this shit up better and to actually make his home away from home somewhat presentable to a guest he wants to make a good impression on. The other voice reminds him that Tweek had no problems with the state of the place when they came here together and it was a total disaster. Craig flops down on his couch and idly scrolls around on his phone. Nothing holds his interest and the aimless clicking between apps without a sense of purpose stirs up a bit of anxiety inside him. He throws an arm over his eyes and lets his phone drop from his grip. It’s entirely not of his own volition, but a groan rumbles low in his chest. The only thing he hates more than feeling out of control is feeling uncertain, and this situation has managed to present itself with the worst of both options.

He replays the course of events throughout the last few days on repeat in his mind. His mother’s attempts at wisdom linger and he frets over the future and all the possibilities it can hold. In the end, it’s the uncertainty that gets him. Craig reflects on everything that led him here. It’s unnerving how quickly everything seems to have changed. All it took was one careless evening and one thoughtless mistake to topple everything into a very bizarre mess. He slowly eases into the couch to think a little harder. That’s just the thing– it wasn’t a mistake, right? His face twists into a weird expression. He could have so easily not done any of that, and a part of him is really convinced of it. He’s never had an issue with control like this before. But that’s even more to the point, isn’t it? He is pretty damn sure he was still in enough control of the situation. Sure, his hormones were running rampant like never before, and sure, Tweek’s pheromones were so potent and alluring and there’s no way that didn’t have some type of effect on him. But in the end, he knows he could have stopped and he knows that for whatever twisted reason he chose to throw his life away as he knew it just because a squirming omega showed up and asked him to do so nicely. What the hell is wrong with him?

Craig knows he can cast off annoying social situations like water off a duck’s back. In fact, it’s been less than fifteen minutes since he did exactly that with Annie. He’s getting more frustrated the longer he thinks about it. Why doesn't he want to do the same with Tweek? Ultimately if he looks at it in a selfish way (as he is accustomed to doing), he should be able to shake this one off, too. Yet every time he considers that as an option, his chest feels tight and uncomfortable and he is hit with wave after wave of desire to stick by his side through this new ordeal. His face contorts. Craig wishes he had someone to talk to about all this, but at the same time the thought of divulging his feelings to anyone makes him want to puke his guts out on principle. Craig splays out on the raggedy couch lost in cyclical, confusing thoughts until the sun dips in the sky and natural light stops pouring in through his windows. It barely registers to him how much time has elapsed until there’s a gentle knock at his door.

He jumps so quickly to his feet that he nearly loses his balance before he can even stand upright. Shit, he never even took off his shoes from earlier. For that matter, he never tidied up and he never got his thoughts sorted out. Fuck. It’s only a few long strides from the couch to the door, but when Craig reaches the threshold he freezes. He’s nervous in a way he’s never felt before and he has to coax himself just to turn the door handle. He takes a deep breath in and then swings open the door on the exhale. It takes him a moment to realize he’s inadvertently closed his eyes. It’s only a moment before he manages to open them, but it feels like ages go by. Craig’s eyelids peel apart and there’s Tweek, standing less than a foot away from him. He’s wearing the same messy button-down shirt he wore at the cafe, but the apron is absent. He must have walked over straight after his shift. Neither of them greets each other with any traditional salutations, nor do they say anything at all for an amount of time that goes well beyond what would be considered polite or normal. Craig means to invite him in, but his words fail him. Finally, it’s Tweek who breaks the silence.

“Are you sitting alone in the dark…?” Tweek glances past Craig’s shoulder.

“No,” Craig lies much too quickly.

Tweek raises an eyebrow and makes an odd little skeptical grunt. Craig winces internally. It’s pretty clear that he was indeed sitting alone in the dark.

“I was gonna turn on the lights,” he adds on.

He takes a step back inside and starts walking towards the lamp. He still doesn’t directly invite Tweek in, though he does make a weird little hand gesture at him to signal as much. Tweek gets the hint and steps inside. He’s just as weird and anxious as ever, it would seem. Craig turns on the light and watches for a moment as Tweek darts his eyes in every direction and wrings his hands. It’s comforting, in its way. While Craig feels something similar to pity for Tweek’s state, he also somewhat selfishly feels comforted in knowing he’s not the only one feeling out of sorts. He flippantly kicks his shoes off where he stands and returns to his former spot on the couch. It’s still warm. Tweek follows suit and perches on the other end. Craig chews on his lip for a moment, then he abruptly addresses the issue head-on.

“So you’re sure you’re pregnant?”

“WAAGGHHH!”

Tweek wails and throws his hands into his hair. All the tension between them breaks and is replaced by sudden frantic energy. Limbs flail and Tweek’s scratchy voice resounds like a swarm of agitated hornets. Craig should really be used to this sort of response by now, but he’s still growing accustomed to it, and with all his own turmoil to contest with as well, it takes him too long to respond adequately. Tweek carries on for another few moments before Craig’s arm reaches forward and grasps him by the shoulder.

“Tweek! It’s okay, Tweek, calm down!” Craig attempts to earn his attention through the force of his words, but without the command of their mixed pheromones, it’s not a very fruitful endeavor.

Craig’s at a loss– he can only wait uselessly until Tweek exhausts himself. In time, he does. He’s reduced to a quivering mess. Back in the cafe, he wasn’t this out of control of himself. Craig supposes that being in the public eye probably encourages him to reel it in a bit. Or maybe it’s just that being back in the place where everything shook out is a lot more stressful. It’s hard to discern right now. Regardless, when he tapers out into a quiet version of stress rather than a loud one, Craig offers a few meager apologies and the pair of them can only look into their own hands as the awkward silence resumes.

“Maybe…” Tweek begins, falters, takes a shaky breath, then begins again. “Maybe we can work up to that part of the conversation…?”

“Yeah,” Craig nods and agrees softly.

The irony of agreeing to start the discussion elsewhere and lead into the heavy stuff is that neither of them quite knows where to start. They’re too familiar with each other to chat idly about classes and the weather, and they’re not quite familiar enough to be fully relaxed. It’s a version of hell Craig really hates enduring, but on the same token too, he finds himself craving that level of intimacy somehow. He just has no idea how to achieve it. Another beat passes and then Tweek’s stomach growls audibly.

“Are you hungry?” Craig asks, grateful for the segue.

A pink tinge crawls over Tweek’s face and his eyes twitch in embarrassment.

“Sorry, no, I’m fine!” Tweek squawks and waves his hands at Craig in refusal.

Craig frowns.

“It’s okay if you’re hungry,” Craig presses the matter, confused as to why anyone would be embarrassed over this. “I mean, I could eat.”

“Oh…” Tweek sighs a bit in relief. “I’ve been so stressed. Argh, I keep forgetting to eat at work. And, ngh, I get pretty sick of the same boring pastries all the time. Plus, my parents hate when I eat the inventory…”

“Your parents don’t feed you?” Craig raises an eyebrow, but when Tweek’s face morphs to one of horror, he clamps up quickly and decides to potentially circle back to that one later. “Nevermind, it’s fine. Do you like Chinese food? I can order dinner for us.”

“There’s good Chinese food on campus?” Tweek asks, and his eyes light up a moment before he falters. “Ack, let me check my wallet and see how much cash I have.”

“Don’t worry about it,” Craig dismisses with a hand wave. “I’ve got my card saved on file.”

“You have your card saved on file?!” Tweek’s face switches quickly back to horror. “Oh god, how can you do that?! Aren’t you worried about them tracing you, man? Shit, what if they sell your information?! They’ll keep files on you, grarghgh, Jesus Christ... They can track you down and drain your accounts. They’ll find out where you live!”

“Uh,” Craig hesitates to respond. “I kinda have it set up to do that, Tweek. On purpose. They save my order, take the right amount of money out, and then bring it to my address. That’s kind of exactly how delivery works.”

“What?!” Tweek yanks at his hair again. “What if they come back to rob you?! Or worse!”

“Do you… Uh… Should I not order food?” Craig once again doesn’t know what to do with himself, but this time it’s for a reason he definitely didn’t predict. “Do you just never order delivery?”

“Never,” Tweek confirms, staring directly at Craig with an intensely serious face. “Pick up only, cash only. No trail. Ever. If they’re going to get me, I’m gonna at least make it hard for them.”

Craig wonders for a moment about who ‘they’ might be.

“Tell ya what,” Craig leans back on the couch and opens the familiar menu on his phone anyway. “I’m gonna order like I usually do. And if anything bad happens, I’ll protect you. Okay?”

Tweek wrings his hands and chews on his lip thoughtfully. It seems like he’s really giving this some deep consideration. Eventually, he gives a single nod of agreement.

“Okay.”

As per usual, Craig selects a few cheap noodles along with some chicken that comes drenched in a salty, messy sauce and adds on an order of spring rolls just for good measure. This time, however, he doubles the quantity. He places the order and drops his phone in his lap. The delivery never really takes that long. It’s a good thing, too. Even though it’s only just begun, Craig can tell this is going to be a long night.

[17/?] (Oops forgot to label last time, but that was obviously ch16 haha)

They’re halfway into their meal by the time the conversation feels more organic and natural. Craig can’t really tell if it’s because they’re growing more comfortable together or if it’s because they’ve delayed the inevitable discussion long enough. He takes another bite of his food. It’s the perfect bite. He got a little bit of chicken, some noodles, and even a grilled onion on his fork. He chews thoughtfully and it tastes so familiar. And yet, he’s not exactly feeling the same comfort as he normally would from the routine of eating the same junk food he always gets. It helps the situation a little, but overall… things are still weird.

“This is pretty good,” Tweek comments, twirling his plastic fork around inside the styrofoam container. “Is anything else on the menu good?”

“I dunno,” Craig snorts in reply because he really doesn’t. “I’ve only ever ordered this. But I order it all the time.”

“Really?” Tweek cracks a sideways sort of smile. “You only order the same thing?”

“Don’t see the need to order something else when I know I like this,” Craig shrugs.

“Hmph, but what if you’d like something better?” Tweek counters and pops a particularly large chunk of chicken in his mouth.

“But what if I order something and I don’t like it?” Craig frowns through his response. “That would be a waste of my time, money, and food.”

He watches Tweek chew for a moment and thinks about what Craig’s just said. It’s hard to keep frowning when Tweek looks just like a hamster with his cheek all puffed out like that.

“Kinda says a lot about you, don’t you think?” Tweek finally says when he’s swallowed his food.

“What is that supposed to mean?” Craig narrows his eyes defensively.

“What’s your favorite color?” Tweek snaps back with another question instead of answering.

“Uh… I dunno?” Craig blinks rapidly a few times, taken aback.

“Pick one.”

“Um, blue? I guess?”

“Interesting,” Tweek hums at this and goes back to fussing with his disposable fork. “You’re a very pragmatic person, aren’t you?”

Craig grunts in a noncommittal sort of way. He’s heard that word before, but he’s not really sure what it means. He also wouldn’t have guessed Tweek had this nearly shrewd and mysterious side to him. It’s pretty unclear to him if he’s been insulted or not. Since he doesn’t want to somehow veer this odd discussion into a distinctly negative realm and mess everything up somehow, he opts not to launch his own line of interrogation and instead busies himself with another heaping bite from his to-go box.

“I, hngh, I wouldn’t normally get food from this kind of place,” Tweek continues airily, and it prompts Craig to glance back up at him. “They put chemical additives in cheap Chinese food.”

“Rumors about MSG have been debunked multiple times, Tweek,” Craig states flatly.

“MSG?” Tweek raises an eyebrow. “No, dude, I know that stuff’s harmless. It’s the other stuff you gotta watch out for. They put addictive chemicals in there to make you buy it more often. You crave it, man. It’s all a conspiracy to boost the economy through the constant cycle of buying Chinese food and then needing more and more of it!”

“Addictive chemicals that make you want more of it,” Craig repeats skeptically. “Sounds like caffeine.”

“Augh, but coffee tastes good and helps people start their day,” Tweek gives him a genuine look that makes Craig realize he’s serious.

They stare at each other in mutual disbelief for a moment before Tweek carries on.

“Anyway,” he continues and finally drops his fork. “None of it really matters because I’m probably craving junk food from, ngh, you know… the hormones.”

Craig groans and drops his fork, too.

“Look, I know I already said all this, but I’m so sorry,” Craig doesn’t like the way his voice strains through the words. “That’s not the way this should have happened.”

“And I already said this, too, but it’s okay,” Tweek smiles, but it’s sort of a sad and distant expression rather than a sincere visage. “I mean, argh, I played my part in it. I’m trying not to think too much about it or, ngh, I start getting way too anxious.”

“Yeah, but,” Craig gestures vaguely, trying to fully express himself and struggling, “it was your first time. No one’s first should end up in a really drastic, life-altering situation.”

“True,” Tweek agrees. “Grarghgh, that’s just my luck though, man. Not only do I end up an omega, but I immediately end up pregnant! It’s like everything’s out to get me!”

“I mean my first time was pretty awful, but not this extreme,” Craig gives a dry chuckle. “I hooked up with a complete stranger and I started to knot within about 2 minutes.”

He’s said it before he realizes it slipped out. He doesn’t know why he admitted that– he’s never told anyone before and had pretty much planned on taking that embarrassing moment with him to the grave. Craig dips his head low and hopes he’s not flushing too noticeably. He tries to regain composure and hopefully brush it off.

“Hmm,” Tweek hums with a sagely, knowing smile and resumes idly pushing the noodles across the styrofoam container. “Yeah, I think everyone’s first time is pretty awkward. Hanhrgh, mine was definitely weird.”

Craig feels a sudden pain under his ribs. He wants to brush it off as the result of far too much sodium intake, but he can’t fool himself. Tweek just told him his first time was weird in such a nonchalant manner, right to his face. It stings and he can’t help but internally acknowledge it. An insecure voice rings in the back of his head and echoes with the words Annie spat at him earlier in the day. Maybe it’s true. Maybe no one wants him.

“Oh,” he says through a tight jaw. “I’m sorry you felt that way.”

Tweek squints at this and leans forward. He lifts the container from his lap and places it on the coffee table. Those gem-like eyes with the heavy bags below them study Craig in the most curious fashion and make him feel seen both inside and out in a way that gives him goosebumps.

“Wait,” Tweek speaks slowly, staring directly into Craig’s own eyes in a way that makes him squirm. “Did you think… Agh, did you think the other night was my first time…?”

“W-well,” Craig stammers uncomfortably. “It was your first heat.”

“Mmph, yeah, it was my first heat, dude,” Tweek tilts his head. “But it wasn’t my first time.”

“But it was your first heat?” Craig repeats himself as a question, his confusion mounting and slowly replacing the twinge of his briefly shattered ego.

“Craig…” Tweek begins slowly as if he’s carefully choosing his words. “Do you think… Ack! God, I hate saying this... I’m getting stressed! Do you… Do you think people only have sex to procreate?”

“No,” Craig scoffs immediately as if the implication is ridiculous. “Of course not. I’ve had a bunch of ruts and I can promise you I’ve never once tried to get someone pregnant. Even though… I sorta just did. Ugh.”

Tweek stares at him with those wide eyes for a bit longer, really scrutinizing him. It makes him feel distressingly perceived, and while it makes his skin crawl and his heartbeat race, he doesn’t particularly hate it to the point where he wants to make it stop. Tweek’s giving Craig that strange look again. It’s the one that he suspects makes Tweek think that if he ogles him long enough, he’ll suddenly know all the answers to everything. Craig doesn’t have the heart to admit that he’s feeling more lost than ever.

“Grgh,” Tweek visibly struggles to maintain his composure and prevent himself from having a nervous outburst over the discussion. “Do you only have sex, mnph, during a rut?”

“I mean, isn’t that pretty much the main time to have sex?”

“I guess,” Tweek agrees in a way that indicates he doesn’t really agree. “But what about betas?”

“What about them?” Craig narrows his eyes, failing to understand what that has to do with anything.

“Betas don’t have heats.”

“Yeah, I know.”

“They don’t have ruts, either,” Tweek tacks on, but Craig isn’t sure to what end.

He blinks a few times and he glances side to side.

“Grrr, Craig, I thought I was a beta until only a few days ago,” Tweek spells it all out for Craig, even though this has just been a series of facts he already knows.

“Okay…?”

“Craig, why aren’t you getting it?!” Tweek makes a hissing, squeaking kind of noise as he fails to get the point across to Craig. “Betas still have sex, man! They don’t go in cycles, dude. I’m telling you I’ve had sex before becoming an omega, why is that so hard to get?”

Craig suddenly feels very embarrassed. He, of course, knew all of this on some level before. It was never relevant to his personal experience, though, so he never really examined it very much. Of course, people have sex. Now he wonders if maybe he’s the weird one.

“I know,” he grumbles defensively. “It’s not like I’ve never slept with a beta.”

“Did you present early?” Tweek asks gently.

“Yeah,” Craig nods. “Pretty much went through both puberties back to back.”

“That makes sense,” Tweek nods. “So it’s like, why would you have considered anything else? Argh, our education system is a mess, man. It’s so mechanical, doesn’t teach anyone the um, ngh, you know, human aspect of it.”

“I guess,” Craig shrugs, but it’s less from indifference and more from the fact that he’s being faced with subject matter he’s never actively put thought to before.

“Anyway,” Tweek clucks his tongue and reels the conversation back in. “It was definitely my first time since presenting as an omega. And I’ve had time to think about it since then.”

Craig raises an inquisitive eyebrow at this and they make eye contact. It results in Tweek producing a truly terrible (yet somehow endearing) garbled, anxious laugh.

“Yeah?”

“Yeah,” Tweek jitters and wrings his hands. “It’s, urkh, basically all I’ve been able to think about. And the more I think about it, the more confusing it is?! I have so many questions, man. And I want to ask you questions but I don’t want to scare you away, I don’t think you have all the answers but maybe you have some of the answers and even if you don’t I want you to know about the questions! Wagghh! It’s all so much, oh Jesus, why am I saying all of this so suddenly?! I’m freaking out here, man! I can’t keep it in anymore!”

That was a lot just there, and Craig feels dizzy from the many concerns bled all together into one jumbly thought. But still, he tries to hone in and focus. Tweek’s breathing has, in an instant, gone from steady and normal to frantic and ragged. He’s noticeably shaking and his hands keep finding clumps of his own hair to tug on. Craig leans forward and remains calm.

“I’m listening,” Craig leans in and speaks softly yet firmly. “You’re not going to scare me away, dude.”

And Tweek responds immediately. He hiccups and jerks his neck to look back at Craig. His eyes search him for sincerity and Craig can only hope he’s exuding it for him. A moment flits by and then Tweek calms himself enough to speak up in a small voice.

“Why did I have to present as an omega?” Tweek laments. “Especially after I had finally, ugh, got a little bit comfortable with my life…”

“I don’t know,” Craig deadpans, not really prepared to have so immediately been unable to answer a question.

“Pfft, Craig,” Tweek gives him a cheeky little smile, even though his eyes are still a bit wistful. “It was a rhetorical question.”

“Oh.”

“But, angh, like I said before. The messed up thing is I really did like being in heat,” he slumps a bit as he admits it.

“Well,” Craig chews the side of his cheek thoughtfully. “I think we’re kinda programmed to like it, you know?”

“I guess,” Tweek agrees. “As out of control as I felt… For the first time in my life, I kinda felt like I was in control? Argh! That makes no sense. But… it felt right. Like I was doing what I was supposed to be doing. Like I want to do it again.”

Craig mulls that over for a moment. While it doesn’t really reflect his general sentiments on how it feels to lose control to the swells of lust, he sort of somehow agrees with this. At least, that’s how he felt this last time around. He really felt like he was doing something right for once. Granted, it obviously backfired. But that feeling can’t be hollow, can it?

“Maybe that’s the hormones talking,” Tweek groans after a long moment of Craig’s lack of response.

“No, I was just thinking,” Craig waves a dismissive hand. “I… I agree, actually. It felt right. More right than usual.”

“I am pretty hormonal, though,” Tweek coughs up a single, ugly chortle that makes a stupid little smile pull at the corners of Craig’s lips through its absurdity.

It’s strange. By all accounts, he should feel much more stressed about that statement. He’s the very reason Tweek is hormonal, after all. But he doesn’t. The conversation is uncomfortable, as it sort of should be by design. But he’s not angry and he’s not feeling like he’s spiraling out of control. It feels natural. That, in and of itself, is a little distressing. But that comes as almost an afterthought rather than a concern at the forefront of his mind. It feels good and correct in the most disturbing way.

“So what comes next?” Craig muses aloud. “Where do we go from here?”

“Hmm,” Tweek rubs at his chin a little as he ponders. “I don’t know, man. That part is terrifying. Thinking about the future, grargh, shit.”

“Should we try talking about it more?” Craig suggests cautiously.

“Not tonight,” Tweek says definitively. “That’s way too much. Ack, I’ll probably freak out, harngh… Maybe another time.”

“Thank god,” Craig sighs in relief. “This has been exhausting.”

The pair both lean back into the couch and try to relax and reflect. Then Craig scrunches up his face as he realizes something.

“Wait, you want to do this again?”

“Agh! Oh… Ah! Well? Only if you want to?!” Tweek squawks. “I thought you said you wanted to do this together?”

“I do!” Craig sits upright with urgency and leans forward to place a hand on Tweek’s knee. “I do. I really do!”

He has no idea why he does, but something in his mind has been wholly convinced that this must be the right thing to do. He’s resolved to stand by Tweek’s side through this. Whatever that means.

“Okay,” Tweek looks into his eyes with an intensity he’s sure matches his own. “Then I’ll send you my work schedule. Argh! Except my fucking parents change it around all the time. Fucking assholes, ugh…”

“It’s okay, Tweek. We’ll figure it out.”

Something visibly breaks in Tweek at these words. It’s a simple promise, but somehow it has a strong effect on him. Craig watches as he bites his lower lip to prevent it from wibbling. He wrings his hands in his lap for a moment. Before Craig can process what’s happening, Tweek flings his arms around him. His breath hitches in his throat and any words he might have been attempting to formulate die on his tongue. Tweek’s face buries itself in the crook of Craig’s neck and he clings fervently to Craig’s midsection. He’s caught off guard, but soon enough Craig reacts and his arms fall into place around Tweek’s body. He holds him close just as he did only a few nights ago. It’s with similar urgency, but the tone has shifted. He buries his nose in the vibrant locks of golden hair that poke out every which way and he sighs through his nostrils. Neither seems to be able to speak, so their bodies do the talking. It’s a silent message of foreign yet mutual feelings. It’s fear and gratitude and anticipation and hopeful promise all rolled into the gentle caress of tangled arms and placid breaths. Somehow, this singular embrace has given them both more answers than any conversation could.

[17.5/?] (damn, I was like 300 words over the limit, whyyyy)

A long while passes before they pull apart. Craig’s chest feels tight, fraught with an oddly pleasant sorrow. Tweek gives him one more of those distant, mournful smiles before they call it a night. He declines Craig’s offer for a walk back to his dorm but assures him it’s a very nice gesture. It’s only a few minutes after Craig is left alone that his phone pings. The text message has no words– it’s just a somewhat blurry image of a handwritten work schedule. He glances it over a few times and starts immediately pinpointing timeframes that match up with his own free time. Craig feels a newfound sense of eagerness and hope. He isn’t sure what he’s doing, but he is sure he’s finally starting to do the right thing.

[18/?] (I'm baaaaaaack!)

As the days turn into weeks, everything changes. It’s a series of little changes, though. Craig’s life seems to rearrange itself organically as the days go by. Nights that were once spent pretending to review his school work alone in the dark are now spent sitting side by side with Tweek as they watch shitty movies in the soft glow of his laptop. Moments that would have been spent unsatisfactorily scrolling social media on his phone with no particular purpose in mind are now spent scrutinizing various images of handwritten schedules and cross-referencing his own obligations in order to maximize opportunities to invite Tweek over to spend time together. He’s even tried a variety of new foods and restaurants he never thought about before– it’s been easy to open his mind to new things with his omega by his side chattering about various cravings for specific flavors and food items. Even when Craig hasn’t particularly enjoyed a meal, he still finds himself happily eating it anyway. After all, there’s something uniquely satisfying about sharing dinner with someone who so clearly and genuinely experiences comfort and gratitude from the itch of a craving having been scratched.

It’s strangely addicting, spending all his free time with Tweek. There are scheduling conflicts here and there, seeing as his parents are less than reliable with a regular schedule at the coffee shop. Sometimes it seems as though there will be full weeks in which they won’t be afforded a chance to spend even one evening together. Craig spends time in his classes bored out of his mind and generally unable to focus on whatever flippant subject matter his professors drone about. It seems unfair that he’s stuck in a room taking notes on things he sincerely has no interest in while Tweek is left alone and probably lonely in his own dorm room. And so, Craig begins to strategically plan when he will ditch his classes. He reasons this isn’t such a bad thing in the end, considering that now that he’s paired with a mate, he won’t be missing any classes due to being in a rut. While in a rut, he could be missing out on important content or imperative exams. With his mind clear and plan in place, he figures he can get away with only missing out on days in class that aren’t of the utmost priority. It’s worth it, he decides, because he rationalizes shit he can simply google or content he can catch up on later should definitely be taking a back seat to providing an adequate level of emotional support to his pregnant omega. Even though his plan in action seems perfectly logical in his mind, he keeps it a secret from Tweek. He doesn’t want to worry him. So he lets him believe that the scheduling, despite the many odd and random changes that his parents implement, continues to work out in their favor miraculously.

The only trouble is, as the weeks turn into months, nothing changes at all. Craig feels like he’s in a rut, and not at all in the hormonal sense. The fact of the matter is that although Craig feels happier and more complacent these days than he ever has before in his life, the elephant in the room has still largely gone unaddressed. As the minutes and hours and days progress ever forward, it becomes all the more challenging to face that impending discussion. Tweek’s belly has started to protrude a bit, too, and it’s pretty clear that it isn’t the result of too many nights of take-out food. There’s no denying it– the result of the fateful night they met in the showers continues to grow and develop inside Tweek’s omega womb and there is no going back. And yet… the pair continue to exist inside their tenuous, self-imposed bubble of feigned ignorance. Not only does Craig not know what to do about it, he is not even sure if he could find someone to confide in for help.

The nagging truth gnaws at him even now, as he sits next to Tweek on the old, battered couch in his single-dwelling dormitory. It’s getting late, and the remaining bits of food in their discarded to-go boxes have long gone cold. Tweek looks exhausted. Granted, the ever-present bags under his eyes lead to a perpetual look of tiredness, but Craig has learned how to read the signs a bit better over time. He’s sluggish and a bit curled in on himself, and the usual string of garbled yelps and rambling stories that Tweek perpetually emits have slowed down drastically. It’s clear to Craig that he’s legitimately sleepy. As their usual routine dictates, Craig will read into the cues and then offer to walk Tweek across the courtyard and drop him off at his own dorm. Once offered, Tweek will politely decline each and every time and insist he is perfectly capable of walking himself the short distance back to his own bed. Then the pair will quietly tidy up whatever mess they’ve made, and Craig will walk Tweek to the door. They’ll share an awkward glance, never certain and never willing to establish where the boundaries lie between them, and err on the side of caution and make no physical contact. After a bit of nervous hemming and hawing, Tweek will promise to text Craig his updated schedule, and Craig will agree to let Tweek know when he can come over again. And that is where the night will end. Craig knows this because it’s what happens each and every time without fail. Still, Tweek does seem like he’s at a good point for this evening to come to an end, so Craig starts up with the script.

“Do you want me to walk you home?”

“Ack!” Tweek shoots straight up in his seat, suddenly startled and alert.

It’s not the exact response Craig expected, but a largely unprompted shriek is a fairly typical contender in the realm of Tweek reactions so Craig hardly bats an eye at this. He does, however, assume this is a stand-in reply for the usual, so he starts to stand up and proceed with the formulaic series of events.

“Wait…” Tweek says meekly, talking a bit towards his chest. “Actually, argh, oh god… Can… Can I stay a bit longer…?”

That was not the response Craig was expecting at all. He slowly sits back down on his end of the couch and raises an eyebrow in Tweek’s direction.

“Sure,” he agrees casually. “You just seem tired.”

“Ah, I am,” Tweek chortles nervously and wrings his hands together. “It’s just, ahh… Hmm. Well, I know Kenny is still awake…”

“Okay…?”

Craig leans forward and studies him. At face value, these should be two entirely separate thoughts. But since they’re not, Craig has grown instantly suspicious. He waits for Tweek to elaborate, but when nothing comes, he picks at the statement a bit deeper.

“Isn’t that a good thing?” Craig asks slowly. “So you won’t wake up your roommate when you walk in?”

“Ah, well…” Tweek hesitates and attempts to deflect. “It’s just… I don’t really have a big coat or anything. Do you, mmph, have one I could borrow?”

“You never wear a coat,” Craig states plainly. “And it’s not that cold out. Are you cold?”

Craig looks him up and down skeptically. He doesn’t look cold. In fact, he actually looks like he might be on the verge of breaking a sweat.

“N…No…” Tweek admits.

They stare at each other for a moment and then Tweek makes a strained, garbled sound.

“I don’t want to walk in and let Kenny see me like this!”

“...what do you mean?”

“You know…” Tweek moans and vaguely gestures to his midsection.

“Wait…” Craig squints and pieces it together. “You don’t want him to see your… bump?”

Tweek can only wail and clutch at big clumps of his hair in response.

“Tweek, have you seriously not told your roommate that you’re pregnant?!” Craig spits out, incredulously. “I understood at first, but dude, you literally can’t hide it forever! How long do you think you can get away with ignoring it?!”

“I don’t know, Craig!” Tweek shoots back in a frantic rapid fire of words.

“Dude,” Craig splutters emphatically, trying to formulate some thoughts while remaining as calm as he can. “Have you told anyone? Tell me you’ve at least told your parents.”

“I can’t tell my parents!” Tweek shrieks at a volume much too loud for this time of the evening.

“Dude!”

“You don’t understand, Craig!” Tweek’s hands and eyes suddenly can’t seem to remain still as the panic starts to grip him. “They’ll send me away! They can’t know I’m an omega, Craig! They’ll… graghragh… they’ll figure out how to exploit me, man… They’ll use the baby for some marketing scheme and then they’ll send me away to some underground sex labor institution to keep me in heat and sell my body to weird alphas! WAAUUGHH! I can’t live like that, man! And they’ll do it! They’ve been trying to think of ways to afford renovations! They’ll sell my body like a piece of meat!!”

“Okay, Tweek, I think that’s maybe a little drastic-”

“They’ll do it, Craig!” Tweek interjects, adamant and shrill.

“Okay, but that doesn’t explain why you haven’t told the guy you live with,” Craig tries to veer the conversation back on track.

“Nobody can know!”

“Well, they’re gonna know soon enough, Tweek!” Craig exclaims incredulously and gestures at his belly. “You’re fucking pregnant, dude, you can’t really keep that a secret!”

Tweek gasps at this and the fear written on his face quickly morphs into sorrow. His arms wrap around himself, giving the appearance that he’s giving himself a tight hug.

“I’m scared, Craig,” he whispers into his chest, either refusing or unable to look up. “I don’t know what to do.”

Remorse for the outburst hits Craig like a train. It should have been so obvious that Tweek is scared. He’s not just avoidant or careless at all. Craig scoots closer to bridge the gap between them on the couch and places a hand on Tweek’s shoulder.

“Look… I’m sorry,” he offers clumsily. “I shouldn’t have yelled just now.”

Tweek doesn’t respond– he just shivers in place, failing to hold back the impending tears. When they fall, Craig can’t help himself. His heart aches and he acts without thinking. His arms fully reach out to coil around Tweek and he pulls him close until his head rests on his shoulder. Craig cards his hands through Tweek’s wild, blonde hair and keeps him there until the quaking slows and the crying dwindles to mere shudders. Maybe it’s very selfish of him, but Craig can inwardly admit that he missed this. It’s like back when they were fresh, and before they had swept the messy details under the rug. He lets out a heavy sigh.

“You can stay as long as you want,” Craig eventually says, and Tweek replies only with a small nod against his tear-soaked hoodie. “Do you work tomorrow?”

Tweek peels himself up from in between Craig’s arms and sits a bit more properly on the couch. He takes a moment to compose himself before answering.

“No,” he says after wiping his eyes on the corners of his sleeve. “Tomorrow’s supposed to be my day off.”

“Hmm,” Craig hums, mind whirling a bit slower than his mouth and he blurts out an idea before the thoughts fully formulate. “Do you want to…stay the night?”

Tweek has never spent the night aside from that first time. He’s never asked, and Craig has never offered. But now it’s out in the open and Craig can’t take it back. Tweek looks surprised at the suggestion, and Craig can only imagine he looks a bit startled with himself, too.

“Don’t you, ngh, have class tomorrow?”

“No,” Craig blurts out the lie, perhaps a bit too quickly. “It canceled.”

“Mmm,” Tweek narrows his eyes at this but otherwise doesn’t question the statement. “Well, that’s a lucky coincidence.”

“Yeah,” Craig agrees.

He takes the simple fact that Tweek didn’t immediately decline the offer as a sign. So he doubles down on it. He can figure out whatever he misses tomorrow at a later time. The situation at hand feels more important. It feels like something he should be prioritizing.

“So, do you?” Craig puts the cards on the table again, so to speak. “You can stay the night here. If you want. I think it’ll be good for us. We should talk.”

Tweek fiddles with the hem of his shirt. A long beat passes where neither of them says anything. Craig feels like he’s disintegrating from the inside out. Part of him knows it’s not a big deal, but another part can’t stand the uncertainty and it makes him squirm uncomfortably.

“Ah,” Tweek finally makes a sound, but it’s followed by another pause before he finally answers the question with another question. “Are you… Nrgh, are you asking me to stay in your bed with you?”

Craig blinks a few times, processing that. He quickly realizes that this is indeed the reality of the situation. They’ve only shared a bed once, and it was under the exact circumstances of that arrangement that led them to the situation they are in right now. Somehow, acknowledging and returning to the same place together feels both comforting and harrowing all at once. Craig swallows thickly, though his mouth seems to have gone dry. Putting words to it feels so weird, but he does so as nonchalantly as he can. For Tweek’s sake, of course.

“I guess that’s what I’m asking, yeah,” he shrugs and can’t quite seem to make eye contact right now.

“Okay,” Tweek agrees after a moment.

It’s hard to read whatever emotion that was that he put into the word, but it was an agreement nevertheless. Craig tries not to look too eager as he finally feels courageous enough to face him again.

“Yeah?”

“Yeah,” Tweek nods this time, a bit more affirmatively. “I think… I think it’ll be nice. Might make it a little easier to talk, hanhragh… you know, about all this.”

Emboldened by the somewhat positive turn of events, Craig rises to his feet and wordlessly offers Tweek a hand. Only a fleeting moment passes before Tweek accepts and heaves himself to stand as well. Once they’re both up, Craig doesn’t let go. And, as a pleasant surprise, Tweek doesn’t either. They shuffle together, hand in hand as their shoulders bump against one another until they reach the foot of the bed. Craig holds his breath. He can only hope this will at least be comfortable.

[19/?]

“So, talking about it,” Craig cringes at his own clumsy icebreaker as he stares at the ceiling of his bedroom.

They’ve been laying stiffly in his bed for the past five minutes without saying a word. And to make matters worse, it is in fact not comfortable. Even worse yet again, this was his idea in the first place and he doesn’t know where to go from here. Tweek gives him a noncommittal grunt in reply but otherwise doesn’t speak. It’s clear that Craig has to be the one to guide this discussion, but even here at the start of things he feels wildly lost and out of control. A twisted part of him almost prefers the lack of control of a rut, because at least in that scenario he hasn’t stupidly and intentionally brought it on himself. He wonders where to start with this– it’s not like he can say, ‘Well, gee, Tweek, you’re getting to a point where you’re pretty obviously pregnant but you haven’t told a soul! And, well, heck! You and I haven’t discussed a single thing about what we’re gonna do about it!’ He wants to kick himself in the nuts just for having sarcastically thought this. Craig frowns for a while, struggling to find a good place to kick it off properly. Another silent yet stressful bout of time passes, and finally, he strings together a sentence he hopes will be tactful enough.

“I can’t really decide who you should or shouldn’t tell about it, Tweek,” he bites his tongue and pauses to attempt to gauge Tweek’s reaction. “But… there comes a point where you and I can’t put it off anymore. The inevitable is gonna happen, and you’re gonna have that baby. Even if we’re the only ones who talk about it, that’s really major. We should at least go into it with some kind of a plan.”

“I know,” Tweek groans to his side. “Argh, I know that, Craig! It’s just… hnngh, every time I start thinking about the future too much I start panicking, man. It’s so overwhelming! I know I’m not the best for these big emotional conversations in the first place, but… This shit in particular is almost too much to handle. It’s not like I want to lock you out or anything like that, dude. It’s more like… I feel like I’m not capable of getting into it.”

“I at least want you to trust that I have both of our best interests in mind, Tweek,” Craig disclaims in an attempt to reassure him. “I mean, I’m pretty terrible at this, too. Kinda takes two to not have an important conversation.”

This earns him a little chuckle from Tweek, and a fleeting sense of both pride and relief washes over him.

“Look, at the end of the day, I just want you to be able to tell me about how all this is going,” Craig continues. “You’re my mate, so I want to take care of you in whatever way that means.”

“Wait…” Tweek rolls over in order to better face him. “What… did you just call me?”

“Uhh… my mate?” Craig repeats back a bit sheepishly.

“I didn’t realize you felt that way about me,” Tweek states in a way that sounds somehow both flattered and insulted all at once.

“Well!” Craig practically yelps. “I mean, I got you pregnant, Tweek. What else am I supposed to call you?”

“I guess that’s fair,” Tweek rolls back over to face the ceiling again, too. “It just would have been nice to know, is all. Augh, maybe it’s good we’re talking about things, after all.”

Craig runs an embarrassed hand down over his face. He feels like there’s no way this is going well but he also knows he needs to press on. That’s just the tip of the iceberg of things that have gone unsaid until now.

“Is that okay?” Craig asks, trying not to sound too bashful.

“That you think of me as your mate?” Tweek clarifies as if it’s somehow not humiliating. “Hmmph, oh… I hadn’t thought about it before. But um… actually, now that I am, yeah. Ah.. haha… ha… I kinda like it?”

Something in Craig’s chest swells pleasantly. He feels happy, but he realizes something at the same time that makes him feel stupid and kind of like a jerk. It was only a few short months ago that he’d had a similar conversation with that Annie girl, and it had gone nothing like this. He wonders how he would have felt if instead of admitting he enjoyed it, Tweek shot him down right here. That would have been awful. And, as he recalls, that’s exactly how he treated Annie. He tries to push the thought of that out of his mind. He rationalizes that it was different. The circumstances cannot be fairly compared, probably. What matters is, things are going (he thinks) well with Tweek. He doesn’t want to dwell on that much longer now that things have been clarified in his favor, so he changes the subject.

“Speaking of things like that… I remember you saying something a while ago about kinda liking being an omega, too,” Craig states in a way he hopes will encourage Tweek to start elaborating on that.

“Hmm,” he muses for a moment in response, taking that bait easily. “Well, I don’t know, really. Because… I’m pretty sure most omegas don’t present late in life. And… ack! They probably don’t get pregnant a couple of hours right after presenting!”

“That fair enough,” Craig agrees with a guilty flinch.

“But aside from the bad stuff, hmm…” Tweek trails off and places a hand on the bulge on his tummy. “A few things are pretty good. And… I do like those things.”

“Oh, yeah?”

“Yeah,” Tweek repeats distantly and rubs a small circle over the bump. “It still feels so weird to really, agh, think about it. But… I actually really like being pregnant.”

That catches Craig’s attention pretty thoroughly. Now it’s his turn to roll over and face Tweek. He definitely wants to hear more about this.

“Why’s that?”

“Hard to explain,” Tweek turns over again, and now they’re laying side by side and face to face. “It just feels kinda… ngh, good. Y’know?”

“No,” Craig stares blankly at him. “I’ve never been pregnant.”

“You’re stupid,” Tweek smirks and rolls his eyes, but it’s clear it’s not an insult. “Maybe it’s because the hormones in my body are programmed to make it feel good. …Oh, god. That’s kind of a fucked up thought, man. Argh… but it does feel good. Everything seems sorta nicer. Like, food kinda tastes better and colors somehow seem brighter and just everything is better. I dunno.”

“Maybe that’s what they mean when people talk about the pregnancy glow,” Craig supplies.

“Ha,” Tweek laughs wryly, but his soft smile is still genuine. “Maybe.”

That thought hangs in the air for a moment. There’s a surreal pleasantness about this that Craig had not at all expected. The solitude of his room really brings out something very delicate and personal between them, it would seem.

“Have you thought about if you want a boy or a girl?” Tweek asks suddenly, tearing Craig back out of the momentary stupor.

“Oh,” he blinks a few times. “I, uh… Actually hadn’t thought about that at all until now. Hmm. A boy, I guess?”

“I think it’s a girl,” Tweek counters quietly.

“Why’s that?”

“Just a feeling,” Tweek shrugs a little. “Do you… ah hah… want to feel it?”

They lock eyes. There’s a vulnerability between them as if this is some monumental question. It’s not… but it feels like something has shifted. Craig can’t seem to find his tongue, so he responds with nothing more than a single nod. Tweek slowly reaches forward and grasps Craig’s hand. It’s a gossamer touch, but still, it’s firm and determined, too. Craig can’t tell which of their hands is the sweaty one. He allows himself to be guided forward until his own hand is placed flat against Tweek’s tummy. It feels solid under his hand, but it’s warm and soft and inviting despite seeming so unyielding. He can’t help himself– as soon as he’s made contact, he wants to explore it all. So he does. His palm traces the expanse freely, trying to discover as much as he possibly can with only the touch of his flattened hand. He tries to memorize every curve and he tries to force into his memories the way the smattering of hairs trailing down from Tweek’s belly button feels against his skin. Craig strangely and actively feels something inside him change and he nearly instantly agrees with Tweek’s former sentiments. Somehow, Tweek being pregnant really does make him feel good. He can’t really explain it beyond that. As if he read Craig’s thoughts, Tweek reaches up and places his hand on top of Craig’s and gives it a little squeeze against his belly.

“Wow,” Craig manages to choke out.

“Right?” Tweek agrees. “That’s gonna be ours.”

Those simple words cause Craig’s heart to do a somersault. He’s gripped by something powerful, unknown, and extremely overwhelming. He can’t form a coherent thought. Tweek’s eyes seem to dazzle in the low light and his breath feels hot in the small space between them. Craig doesn’t know what emotion he’s feeling, but he feels it so strongly. It’s warm and tingly and he feels it spread quickly from his chest and all throughout his limbs. It addles his mind and begs him to act on instinct and desire rather than any cognizant thoughts. And so, for the first time in his life outside of a rut, Craig leans forward and kisses someone.

Their lips catch gently at first, cautious and slow as if they’re uncertain. Tweek seems a bit more surprised than put off, but after a moment he leans into it, too. Now that he’s had a taste, Craig realizes he’s hungry for more. Of course, he knows what kissing someone feels like. This act itself isn’t new to him. And yet, this certainly isn’t familiar. He has no driving force to knot that’s guiding this. There’s no surge of pheromones dictating this behavior. He’s kissing Tweek because he wants to, and knowing that Tweek isn’t in heat and is reciprocating… that only makes him want it even more.

He presses his lips harder into Tweek’s while something in his chest flickers like a candle. His hands crawl forward of their own volition and wrap around Tweek’s body to pull him closer. Tweek responds in kind and tangles himself up with Craig, as well. Their lips part as they kiss, giving space for their tongues to freely explore. It’s all laced with desire and unspoken yearning, pushing out all traces of hesitation and confusion that either of them once held. The moment is rushed but it feels slow as well like time has stopped just for them to share this act and wordlessly reveal these feelings to one another. Craig can hardly tell where he stops and Tweek begins and it’s just like Tweek said before– it feels good, and it feels right, and he really can’t figure out how to define it beyond simply that.

In time they need to breathe, so despite the clear desire to continue, they break apart. As they huff big gulps of air, Tweek periodically leans forward and catches Craig with a handful of sweet, chaste pecks on the lips. Craig can hardly handle it, but he clings dearly to Tweek and lets him continue to pepper him with little kisses until they’ve both caught their breath. Craig still can’t think straight after that. He doesn’t know what to do or what to say. So instead, he lays there stupidly with a dreamy smile on his face. He hopes Tweek doesn’t think he’s an idiot. Even if he does, Tweek doesn’t address it.

“A girl sounds good, too,” Craig eventually blurts out.

Tweek replies with a bout of truly insane laughter.

“That’s what you say after we make out?!”

“I guess,” Craig shrugs and chuckles a bit, too.

“Hmm,” Tweek starts to settle down and muses to himself, still tangled up in Craig’s arms. “I guess I really am your mate, huh?”

“I guess,” Craig repeats. “If you want?”

“Yeah,” he solidifies it.

Craig nuzzles at his neck a little, even though he has no desire to bite it. It still somehow seems like the right thing to do, though he can’t place why. He’s not sure exactly what’s come over him. He wonders idly if it has something to do with the pregnancy hormones affecting him. He’s never heard of that before, though. And that’s probably not the case, since he isn’t experiencing any of the telltale signs of an impending rut. Actually, he’s completely certain he can’t go into a rut right now since his mate is pregnant. That’s essentially the one thing he scientifically knows about an alpha’s relationship to pregnancy (beyond inducing it, of course). That knowledge makes him feel all the more bizarre. Despite the inability to experience anything related to the heat cycle, Craig still feels affectionate and physically drawn to Tweek. He’s never felt like this before without the craze and the urgency of his active pheromones. It’s a pleasant sort of confusing.

All the while, Tweek continues to hold onto him. His hands move slowly but deliberately, traipsing along the length of Craig’s back and abdomen, but always falling just short of stopping to rest anywhere. It’s a ticklish sensation that makes his breath hitch and his muscles clench, but it only makes him want it more. It's adjacent to that feeling of vulnerability, mingling with something tender and fraught that burns in his chest and makes him feel warm all over. He leans in and mirrors Tweek, giving him a soft kiss just on the corner of his mouth. Maybe this was the right thing to do because Tweek’s eyes flutter shut in response and it pulls a wispy little gasp from him.

“Craig…” Tweek whispers his name, teetering on the verge of a moan. “I’m glad we had this talk.”

It’s almost funny, seeing as there hasn’t really been much discussion at all.

“Me too,” Craig agrees with him nonetheless.

Tweek takes his turn again and kisses Craig, pressing his lips hungrily against any place he can reach. They go back and forth like this for a bit, never quite returning to the heavy kissing but never quite keeping their hands or their mouths to themselves, either. Craig decides he would happily lose countless hours of sleep in favor of this.

“Now that you’re officially my mate,” Tweek puts some emphasis on that last word before a pause in his thought, “I… agh… I feel like I can tell you something.”

“What’s that,” Craig inquires airily in a liaison between a string of sloppily placed kisses.

“There’s something else about pregnancy,” Tweek begins to explain, still planting kisses here and there as well. “Something, haah, I didn’t expect.”

“There’s a lot to expect while expecting,” Craig agrees in a thick voice.

He’s not really thinking, and he hasn’t been for a while. At this point, he’s just stupidly quoting Hallmark cards he’s seen before. He’ll probably have to kick his own ass later. Right now, he’s very busy with kissing his mate, and it feels too good to concentrate on anything beyond how good he feels.

“Mmm, Craig, I’m serious,” Tweek almost whines, but it doesn’t deter either of them from the languid groping session.

Craig hears himself make some kind of hazy grunt of acknowledgment and he hopes it’s enough to show Tweek he’s (kind of) paying attention.

“It makes me… hnngh, so horny, man.”

“Hmm?”

That certainly caught Craig’s attention.

“Everything makes me want to fuck,” Tweek admits rather blatantly, and something stirs around pleasantly in Craig’s insides. “You said you want to take care of me… Do you still want to take care of me, Craig?”

[19.5/?]

Craig’s eyes go wide and his jaw goes slack. A moment like this has never presented itself to him before. In fact, he never even thought it was something in the realm of possibilities. Craig always supposed his lot in life was to be used for his rut. He figured he’d spend all his days living an uneventful life and occasionally fuck someone who was interested in scratching a mutual itch to rid themselves of the curse of presenting with a demanding secondary sex. Fucking, to him, had been little more than a necessary routine that was largely comparable to brushing his teeth or studying for an exam. It’s just the thing he had to do in order to reach a favorable end. But now, he’s not in a rut and Tweek isn’t in heat. They’re just two people laying together, and somehow, one of those people has decided Craig is worthy and desirable and accessible for reasons not at all related to his current status as an alpha. He feels almost virginal, in a way. Uncertain and giddy, riddled with nerves and excitement and a strange sense of belonging, Craig nods his head.

“In whatever way that means.”

(gdi I was 120 characters over the limit. Not words, characters. Jeez that's annoying lol)

[20/?]

Craig’s heart slams behind his ribs and the thrum of his pulse drones in his ears. His limbs are heavy as lead and prickly little beads of sweat form all along his spine. And yet, he feels calm. He's comfortable and without a single worry plaguing him. It should be a bit disconcerting, seeing as he has a grand variety of things to be legitimately worried about. But as Tweek’s lips meet his own again the countless time in a short span, it’s like he devours all the anxieties and stress of the situation right out of him before they can manifest. Really, Craig can’t be blamed for being so absorbed in this moment. Tweek’s kisses are hungry and wanton, and they make him feel like for the first time in his life, he’s wanted.

“Craig…” Tweek huffs his name into his mouth, and Craig swallows it down with a needy gulp.

He doesn’t know how it’s happened, but Tweek has crawled forward and pushed into Craig forcefully enough that he’s now flat on his back. Tweek looms above him, strong arms holding himself up and heavy stomach pressing into Craig’s. He’s dizzy and lightheaded, completely out of his element, and pleasantly out of control. There are no pheromones to guide him or sway his sense of judgment, and yet he’s fully succumbing to every sensation. His hands crawl up around the back of Tweek’s neck and his fingers tangle in the hair along the nape of his neck. Tweek moans into his mouth, desperate and familiar. In a way, it’s just like before. There’s urgency between them, building and swelling, propelling them to move and touch and feel each other. But it’s not like before– Craig feels adrift at sea, unsure which way the tide will pull him. So he holds on tight and lets the push of Tweek’s tongue on his own guide the way.

“Are you okay with this, Craig?” Tweek inquires, low and raspy, as though he’s read his mind.

On the one hand, of course, he’s okay with this. He’s drowning in the air around him, swept up in the grip of Tweek’s rough hands and soft tongue. Tweek cups his jaw and kisses him slowly, almost patiently. Craig allows his tongue to roll in time with his partner’s as if he’s been given a chance to mull over the situation. He’s more than okay with this… but he feels so new, like a clumsy newborn animal trying to find balance on his legs for the very first time. He isn’t accustomed to taking the lead. But then again, it’s always been something of a routine of instinct, hasn’t it? He’s never truly been in control, so he rationalizes that this isn’t too far from the familiar. He can only whine into Tweek’s hungry mouth in response.

“It’s been so hard, Craig,” Tweek continues, seemingly taking the pathetic sounds he’s drawn out of Craig as a good enough answer for now. “It’s freaking me out… Hrngh, so many secrets. So many changes… I can’t take all this pressure. It’s making me feel insane, Craig. And you wanna know the worst part?”

Craig can only nod feebly. He’s truly unsure of what to expect by now, but his head is in the clouds and his body is on fire with the consistent touch of jittering hands against him.

“It’s this,” Tweek peels one of Craig’s hands from his neck and drags it down until Craig is caressing his low-hanging belly. “This, Craig. In here. Hngh, it’s a constant reminder, man.”

“A constant reminder?” Craig repeats on reflex, though his voice comes out low and croaky.

“Yeah,” Tweek’s eyes bulge in their sockets, wild and fixated on Craig. “It’s all I can think about. It reminds me of what I am, Craig. I’m a filthy, obedient omega deep down inside. Ha… ha, ha… I’m something to be bred like an animal, and it’s so fucked up. It’s so fucked up, man. Hrngh, I’ll keep going into heat, and… grargh, I’ll beg for more. I’ll fucking beg for this.”

He holds Craig’s hand tight against his swollen abdomen. Craig swallows thickly. His eyebrows knit together in confusion and stress.

“I thought you liked being pregnant…? You just said you liked it…?”

Craig had meant for this to come out as a challenge, but now that the words hang in the air he almost feels stupid for saying it. He sounds meek and perplexed. Tweek dips his head low until their noses bump. He breathes a few ragged breaths shamelessly onto Craig’s face and a truly unhinged expression etches itself over his features.

“I love it,” he whispers dangerously. “Don’t you get it? That’s what’s so fucked up. Haangh, that’s what scares me. I love it.”

“Shit, ow,” Craig curses under his breath as Tweek tangles his free hand into a clump of his hair and grips it tightly. “That doesn’t, ow, make any sense, Tweek.”

“No.. no, no… no,” Tweek protests in a tone that manages to be both gentle and deranged all at once. “You get it. I know you get it. I’m not crazy, Craig. You’re an alpha. I know you know that I know that you get it.”

“God damn it, Tweek, what is that supposed to mean,” Craig grunts.

“You love it, too,” Tweek rasps as if it’s a matter of fact and grips tighter until the pressure on his scalp makes Craig’s vision start to blur. “You’d do it again, dude. You’d do this all over again, like a horny fucked up dog, no questions asked because you love it, too.”

Craig squirms uncomfortably under the strength and weight of Tweek’s grasp on him. He’s fully pinned in his own bed and something cold in his stomach tells him he’s better off not fighting it. Adequate thoughts fail to develop in his mind. If he tries to spin this positively, he’s grateful that in some way they’re finally having a long overdue discussion about their circumstances. The only problem is, this is not at all the way he’d supposed it would shake out. There’s a bizarre sense of whiplash to the ordeal, between the former giddy, delicate kisses and the current ferocious, flagrant accusations. He tries to concoct a decent response based on logic and reason.

“Well…” Craig pauses cautiously. “It’s sort of presented a lot of difficulties.”

“Exactly!” Tweek practically shrieks as he smooshes the bridges of their noses together and hisses a bewildering and emphatic agreement. “It’s been so hard, Craig. Grarghragh, so hard! Ack! And why?! Because it’s how we’re hardwired, man. This fucked up shit is how we’re preprogrammed to be. It’s because you’re an alpha, and I’m an omega. Do you know how much it turns me on having to see myself looking like this, arrghargh, every day?! And then you go and say nice things to me like you want to take care of me? I can’t take it!”

“I didn’t have to stick around, you know,” Craig grouses defensively, pushing his head back hard into the pillow to attempt to get a bit of personal space.

“But you did,” Tweek continues the accusation. “Because you’re an alpha, dude. None of this is in our control! Arrgh, I feel like I don’t even know who I am anymore! But every time I see this, I get so… hrrngh, so overwhelmed! I feel like, ahagragh, like… I don’t know! It reminds me that I’m a pathetic omega, and I have an alpha to take care of me, and it gets me going. It gets me going so much I can’t see straight and it’s freaking me out! Warghaugh!”

He reels back abruptly and lets go of Craig’s hair only to tangle his hands in his own as he wails. Craig takes a few heavy breaths to collect himself. He looks up and watches Tweek for a moment. There’s fear behind the crazed, manic look in his eyes. He knows he needs to say something, but he’s at a loss. There’s truth to what Tweek has frantically cried out. They truly are in this unplanned pregnancy debacle due to the simple fact of their secondary sex statuses. Craig frowns. But that’s not why they’re here in his room now. That’s a choice they made together, of their own volition, and he feels nearly insulted that Tweek seems to believe otherwise.

“It’s not just because I’m an alpha, Tweek,” he defies him firmly, even though he continues laying on his back like a slug.

“Then why,” Tweek demands and whips his head hard to the side to glare at Craig.

Craig suddenly realizes he’ll have to answer that question with complete sincerity, and it’s not something he’s had the heart to actively examine until now. He chews on his lower lip. There’s more to it than instinct-driven compulsion. On some deep level, he knows it’s far more personal than that.

“Look, Tweek. I’ve already told you I presented early. I’ve had a lot more time to come to terms with my status than you have,” he begins, unsure exactly where he’s headed with this.

Tweek makes a little irritable sound under his breath but otherwise doesn’t interrupt.

“That means I kinda have a pretty good feel for when I do things just because I’m an alpha,” he continues to explain earnestly. “I can admit it’s why I went prowling that night, and it’s also definitely why I brought you back here in the first place. Ugh. I was in a rut. You were in heat. It was pretty cut and dry. But I’ve done that a bunch of times, dude. And I’ve never stuck around with someone before. So… what I’m saying is, you can’t just tell me you’re only here with me now because I’m an alpha. That part isn’t true.”

“Grr, you’re avoiding the question, Craig,” Tweek frowns.

“Okay, well maybe it’s because…” Craig trails off, feeling the heat rise to his face as he turns away, suddenly unable to look at Tweek. “Maybe it’s just because… I like you?”

“Wh…what…?” Tweek veritably gasps out the question.

The tension in the room drastically drops at those small, simple words. Craig squeezes his eyes shut. He can’t bear to face Tweek after so plainly stating something like that. There’s no duplicity to it. That isn’t the issue. Rather, it’s the opposite. It’s raw and vulnerable and fraught with unease because if Tweek truly views their situation based on nothing more than carnal instinct, he’s exposed a tenuous part of himself with no line of defense in place. He cringes with uncertainty and regrets saying anything at all…but at the same time, he doesn’t. There’s a sort of relief that has come with putting words to his feelings for once. He knows rationally that only a beat has passed since he confessed something akin to affection, but the stress of the situation makes it seem like an eternity has passed before Tweek says anything.

“Because you like me…?” Tweek repeats the words as a question, speaking slowly as if each word is fragile.

“Well, yeah,” something about the abject shock in Tweek’s voice emboldens Craig to crack his eyes open and continue. “Why else would I spend all my free time with you? That’s not really a symptom of biological impulse, dude.”

“Mmph,” Tweek grunts and folds his arms over his chest skeptically. “But how do you know? How do you know that’s not just your fucked up brain tricking you?”

Tweek seems so frangible and insecure. It’s a stark contrast to the strong arms and heated words that assailed him only a few minutes prior. For whatever reason, the fluctuation makes his chest flutter tenderly. The fact of the matter is, he doesn’t know it’s not just his fucked up brain tricking him. More importantly than that, though, is that he’s already decided it doesn’t matter.

“I dunno,” he admits rather freely. “But it doesn’t feel like it is. That whole night… it was different, Tweek. I don’t know how to explain it, but it just was.”

He realizes he’s not making a very compelling argument here, but he hopes Tweek can at least tell that he’s trying his best. Craig pulls himself upright on the bed and arranges himself to sit across from where Tweek has situated himself. Maybe he can show him he’s more than just a stupid alpha in another way. He hates being reduced to nothing more than that, and it stings to know that there’s a chance that even Tweek only views him as his label, too. He sighs heavily, then reaches forward to place his hand once again on the bulge in Tweek’s abdomen. The effect it has on him is equal parts instantaneous and amazing. It’s very curious how something as simple as touching his mate’s full belly makes his skin feel alive and his heart feel like a cloud ready to burst. He rubs a tentative circle over the spot where his hand lays, and though he can’t find the courage to look at Tweek’s face, he can feel the slight shudder that wracks his body at the subtle contact.

“You were right about one thing,” Craig keeps going before he loses his nerve. “I do like it. Maybe part of that is because I’m an alpha. I don’t know. But I do know if all this was going on with someone else, I think I’d hate it. A lot, probably. But I don’t. I think that should count for something.”

There’s a flicker of hesitation, but then Tweek places his hand on top of Craig’s. It’s warm and that alone is reassuring. Craig takes a chance and looks up. His eyes meet with Tweek’s. It’s the dead of night, and yet they still twinkle vibrantly under the soft sheen of the tears that pool in them. They’re haunted yet hopeful all at once, and Craig feels like he’s truly seeing him for the first time. He’s more than a lustful, desperate omega. He’s more than a clingy, heavily pregnant mate. He’s Tweek. He’s bombastic and loquacious, fretful and paranoid, curious and peculiar, all jumbled together. Just like himself, Tweek’s not some entity to be solely characterized by a singular trait. He’s a litany of captivating qualities that has managed to infatuate Craig. It’s ridiculous to only now come to this conclusion and Craig feels strangely humbled. He steadies himself and dares to press on.

“Do you, uh… think you feel the same? If this were with someone else, I mean.”

“I’m not sure,” comes the meek response.

Tweek must have noticed Craig teetering on the brink of crumpling because he gives the hand below his own a deliberate squeeze.

“But,” Tweek continues, with a bit more strength in his voice. “I’m glad it’s you.”

It’s weird– Craig never would have suspected that this kind of reciprocation would make his heart soar. His face feels warm and his lips start to curl into a gentle smile that he can’t hide. All of this is so exhausting. But oddly enough, he feels good all over. Tweek laces their fingers together and heaves a tired sigh before letting his head droop forward to land on Craig’s shoulder. They spend a few quiet minutes doing little more than basking in each others’ company.

“So,” Tweek nuzzles the crook of Craig’s neck, finally daring to break the silence. “Hmm, what do we do now?”

“I have no idea,” Craig says flatly and honestly, but he plants a kiss on the top of Tweek’s messy hair. “I was kinda hoping you’d tell me.”

“Me?” Tweek chuckles sarcastically and sits up. “I can’t think about the future, man. That’s way too stressful.”

“Hm,” Craig nods. “But what about now?”

“Now?” Tweek slings an arm over the shoulder where his head once laid. “What I think we should do now?”

“Uh, yeah,” Craig starts to lose his balance and pushes an arm out behind him to brace himself so he doesn’t lose his balance.

“Ah, Craig… you know what I want to do now,” Tweek continues to shove him downwards until Craig indeed can no longer support himself and falls into his pillow with a thud.

“Tweek…?” Craig’s voice cracks but he’s too distracted to feel embarrassed.

Their legs slot together in a way that is not at all familiar. His knees bend and open wide as Tweek slithers between them and holds himself above Craig. Something in his instincts that he’s never experienced before commands Craig to loop his long legs around Tweek’s, so he does. His arms follow suit and reach over his back and lock him into place. His mind is a mess and his jaw hangs slack.

“I can’t take it anymore, Craig,” Tweek warns him softly. “I’m not gonna be able to hold back.”

Craig swallows the lump in his throat. He hears his own voice distantly in his ears before he strains his neck to lean forward and push their mouths together in an eager, greedy kiss.

“Then don’t.”

[21/?]

“I really did love it, Craig,” Tweek reminds him once they pause for a breath.

Craig revels in it as Tweek’s hot breath dances along his own wet lips. He licks them as if he can taste and swallow those words.

“I loved feeling like an omega,” he continues, and all Craig can do is shamefully whimper and devour the sentences as they pour out. “I, ahh, loved how you made me feel. I understand why they call it heat. You feel like you’re on fire, man.”

He looms over Craig’s body and leans in to reach up to brush a few stray hairs off Craig’s forehead. The weight of his belly presses into Craig’s, even though he’s propped up. It really gives Craig an understanding of exactly how distended his abdomen has become.

“I never knew getting fucked could feel like that,” he whispers the vulgar words so sweetly. “Haaa, did you know that, Craig? Do you know how good it can feel?”

“ ‘Supposed to feel good,” Craig manages to grunt out even though his head is swimming.

“You know how good it feels to be fucked, Craig?” Tweek punctuates the question by grinding his hips against Craig’s with a wild look lighting up his eyes. “It feels better than that.”

“I’m, ahh…” Craig chuckles a bit awkwardly. “I’m an alpha.”

“That’s right,” Tweek veritably coos, somewhere between mocking and encouraging that response. “You’re an alpha. Ha… ha, ha… Right? You can’t have what I have, can you, Craig? Hee… hee, hee, hee… Tell me you’re just an alpha. You’re just an alpha, and you can’t do anything except fucking scramble up someone else’s guts with your, angh… your big… big alpha cock.”

“I’m not just an alpha,” Craig furrows his brow and puffs out his cheeks defiantly.

Tweek slips his hands up under the hem of Craig’s shirt and drums his fingers along the flesh beneath it all the way up to the collarbone before raking his nails back down the same path. Craig hisses through his teeth and his back arches just a bit.

“Prove it,” Tweek challenges him. “Prove it, Craig. Hrngh, I can prove it, man. I’m not just an omega. I’m an omega, though, Jesus Christ, fucking look at me, dude. I’m your omega. But that’s not all. No, that’s not all. That’s not all, at all, man. Angh, I can’t. That can’t be everything, Craig! But I could do it before. Yeah… Yeah, I can still do it. It’s fucked up, Craig, it’s so fucked up, Craig. C’mon, argh, c’mon…”

Tweek starts to roll his hips, lost in the mess of words that fumble past his lips in his agitated state. He presses his palms flat on Craig’s stomach, anchoring himself as well as holding Craig down in place.

“What the fuck are you talking about, Tweek,” Craig curses, but there’s no venom in his words.

In fact, his actions are nothing short of supportive of Tweek’s increasingly confusing behavior. His legs stay firmly latched around Tweek’s and he lets his hips reciprocate with each push and pull.

“Can you do it?” Tweek dips back down low, but stops just before their noses can brush together.

His arms creep forward to cradle Craig’s head and lock him in place, giving him no choice but to maintain eye contact. It makes Craig squirm feebly, but something in him knows he wouldn’t look away even if that were an option.

“Do… what, exactly?” Craig practically squeaks.

“I don’t know what we should do,” Tweek sighs through the words, then pauses to plant a wet kiss on the side of Craig’s overheated cheekbone. “But, augh, I know what I want. I wanna do this, Craig. And… and grrrargh, I gotta do it. I won’t be able to stop. I can’t stop, Craig! Is that okay? It’s gotta be okay, man, you gotta prove it. You said. You said, Craig!”

The thought doesn’t really come to fruition. Tweek, in a frenzy, trails off and pushes his mouth hard against Craig’s. He lets his tongue explore Tweek’s mouth. It’s hot and feverish, just as he remembers it. It’s pleasant and confusing all at once since his sense of smell isn’t overwhelming him. Similarly, his cock doesn’t strain and cause him a frantic sort of distress. But the sensations are much the same otherwise– his heart is racing and his limbs feel heavy and light all at once. There’s a need that burns in his belly that he has no idea how to act upon. In a way, he’s grateful that for once in his life he isn’t at the helm. As for his confusion, though, it’s because he never thought this would be a possibility for him. Tweek holds him down and forces his tongue deeper down his throat. All Craig can do is succumb and enjoy it.

“Will you take care of me?” Tweek pulls back and gasps out the words. “The way I need? Can you prove it, Craig? Can you, augh, take care of me?!”

“I can only say ‘yes’ so many times, Tweek,” Craig tries to sound exasperated, but he ends up wheezing since his lungs feel on the verge of collapse.

Tweek emits something between a whine and a growl, and then his hands get to work. They’re everywhere on Craig, never stopping in one place for too long. His swollen tummy prevents him from bending or moving too quickly, but Craig views this mostly as a blessing. Tweek grips Craig’s arms, his chest, and his hair all in an erratic mess of quickly tangling appendages. Craig, on the other hand, alters between letting himself be groped and gently reaching toward the bump on Tweek’s belly. It’s nearly more hypnotic than if he’d marked him during his rut. It’s tangible, visible, and real. Pheromones are only clear to those who can perceive them. This is so much more than that. It’s unquestionable and a clear mark of his claim. He suddenly understands how Tweek feels about it. There’s something unbridled here, showing the unmistakable results of what they’ve done and who they’ve become to one another. The blood in his veins burns hot. He’s sure he can’t describe it but he wants to relive every moment that led up to this.

Craig’s thighs fall open as Tweek’s mouth lands on the side of his neck. Soft lips and wet tongue meet the tender flesh above his pulse. He’s acutely aware that this is nothing like a mark– how could it be? There are no raging pheromones or engorged genitals to quell. He feels ticklish and squirmy, as well as sensual and lightheaded. There’s no greater reasoning behind this than for pleasure on its own. Craig feels like hot wax melting under a candle’s flame. Between the sensation itself and the knowledge that Tweek is simply doing this to make them both feel good, he can’t help himself. He’s a puddle on the mattress. Craig angles his head to the side to make himself more available. He’s acting on instinct, and yet he’s not. Once it seems he's satisfied, Tweek pulls back and sits on his heels between Craig’s open legs and starts fumbling with the zipper on his pants.

“Holy shit,” is all Craig can manage to utter.

It all happens so fast. Tweek tugs on his clothing and Craig lifts his hips and arches his back to assist in the process. Before he knows it he’s laying flat on his back and completely exposed. It’s strange– he feels shy and vulnerable, in a very nearly virginal sort of way. The evidence to the contrary is directly in his line of sight in the form of Tweek’s round tummy, but even still he can’t help but feel small, defenseless, and completely new to all of this. The sound of his own breathing deafens him. His fingers latch onto the bed linens as if clutching tightly will prevent him from falling off the side of the earth.

“Craig,” Tweek manages to find a way to make something as simple as saying his name sound lewd and vulgar. “You look good like this.”

He feels so insecure, considering he’s laying on his back with his jeans scrunched up around the back of his knees and his shirt has crawled a bit up his stomach. Tweek speaks so reverently, though, and he can’t help but feel like it’s sincere. He wants to return the compliments. Tweek is the reason his breath hitches and his heart clenches, and he wants him to know that, too. But the words die in his mouth and his thoughts tangle up like an abandoned box of string lights. He tries to swallow that dry feeling in his mouth but he can only scrounge up a few measly little moans and whimpers. He misses the ironically “in control” feelings of being out of control during a rut, but he also really and truly does not. It’s all quite literally in Tweek’s hands and there’s something new and exciting deep within him that loves it.

“Your cock was so swollen before,” Tweek comments casually like he’s recollecting a tasty meal he once enjoyed; it makes the heat burn almost painfully on Craig’s cheeks. “Looked like when you, agh, put too much shit in your backpack. Ha, you know? And the zipper just… Mmm, looks ready to pop. Was it painful, Craig? Did it feel… ah, heavy?”

Craig doesn’t know how to answer that question. He can’t really force his mind to look back and reflect on how his dick felt a few months ago even if he wanted to. Tweek’s hands glide up the top of Craig’s bare thighs and send pleasant waves of crackling electricity jolting up his spine.

“It felt like having a boner,” he says stupidly, kind of hating himself for saying something so useless.

“It felt heavy inside me,” Tweek doesn’t seem fazed by any of the dumb sentences being strung together, instead focusing on kneading little circles closer and closer to his groin. “How does it feel now?”

“Wha…?” Craig tilts his head forward to look where Tweek has paused to gesture in between his legs.

His bleary eyes struggle to focus, but lo and behold there stands the unfamiliar sight of his own cock standing upright. It’s not angry or red, nor is it grotesquely swollen to a deformed degree. Obviously, he knows what his own dick looks like when it’s hard. He’s not unfamiliar with the nuisance of waking up with an erection, and especially when he was younger it seemed like he spent most of both his puberties walking around with the damn thing tucked up in his waistband to conceal it. It’s just… the only time someone else has seen it, he’s been in a rut. It’s always been in its behemoth state of unrestrained, pheromone-driven determination. Having a run-of-the-mill boner has really never been anything more than a simple nuisance for Craig, and it’s one that much more easily resolves itself on its own compared to the other at that. He’s still stuck in this embarrassing limbo of feeling like a completely incompetent idiot and feeling completely overcome with pleasure and desire.

“Hmm,” Tweek gives him a coy smile when he takes too long to respond. “I think it suits you.”

Those words make his cock twitch and jump, now that he’s acknowledged it. He feels extra dumb for not putting it together before. Tweek lowers himself until he’s hovering just above Craig’s cock. He’s suddenly peripherally aware that he’s shaking, and it’s not because he’s cold. He holds his breath, unwilling to make any sudden movements. He bites his tongue, much too unsure of himself to speak.

“Are you nervous, Craig?” Tweek presses a kiss to his stomach before resting his cheek on the same spot.

“A little,” he admits hesitantly.

“It’s okay,” Tweek croons, planting a few more soft kisses around the hairs that lead down between Craig’s legs. “Ngh, it’s okay, man. I was nervous, too. So nervous…”

“I’m sorry,” Craig apologizes yet again, but this time it’s because he’s at a loss for anything else to say.

“No… no, no. No,” Tweek insists, adamantly shaking his head while his nose brushes against those ticklish hairs. “You knew what to do! Augh, and you did it. You did it all, Craig. So it’s okay. It’s okay, it’s okay, it’s okay. Hnngh, because you know what? This time I know. I know, man. Harghrgh, you know?”

“No, Tweek,” Craig huffs through his nose in exasperation. “I don’t know.”

“When I was scared, Craig, ngh, you made me feel so good. You showed me how,” Tweek’s slides easily up the side of Craig’s hip and finally finds a resting place with his palm flattened against Craig’s shaft. “And now? Now… hrngh, now I need to show you how.”

Craig’s knees buckle at the contact. It’s everything he didn’t realize he needed. There’s no urgency like he’s accustomed to. There’s no strain and no feverish burn to the act. Tweek’s fingers slowly curl around Craig’s shaft, like he’s testing the waters. It’s soothing, in a way. There’s no definitive drive toward seeking a predetermined end. It’s something Craig had never considered in the past– the whole point before was to fuck something raw until he knots, solely for the purpose of relieving himself of the anguish of his rut. But this? This is the simple act of someone touching him for no reason other than to bring him to a heightened state of pleasure. He lets out that quivering breath he was holding in, allowing the lingering feeling of Tweek’s deliberate pumps to wrack his entire body.

“Agh, don’t you want to feel good, Craig?” Tweek slowly strokes him, albeit it still a little bit erratically.

“Mm,” Craig can only nod and hope that his jerky hips show enough signs of agreement.

“You made me feel so good. Mm, so good,” Tweek mutters to himself. “Every day, hngh, every day I think about it, man. I can’t take it anymore. I hate it. Hate how much I love it. I’m an omega, Craig. So why do I wanna do this? Why?”

“Why,” Craig repeats, trying to hone in his focus on the fingers coiled around his length.

“ ‘m not just an omega,” he grouses and gives Craig an unintentional squeeze that causes him to lurch forward a bit.

“You’re not,” Craig agrees, and he realizes he truly believes it.

“Tell me you’re not just an alpha,” he demands, working Craig’s cock just a little faster.

“I’m not,” Craig agrees again, flinching just a little.

It’s not painful, but it’s certainly overwhelming. His head feels murky, but he’s strangely lucid.

“Grarghragh, say it, Craig! You need to say it,” Tweek almost wails, babbling a mile a minute while steadily jerking Craig off as if his life depends on it and his frantic eyes dart around wildly. “I gotta feel better about this. You gotta tell me. Please, Craig… I need to know. Ack, it’s gonna happen again, man, I can feel it. Once this part is over, it’s gonna start again. Oh, Jesus, it’s neverending, isn’t it?! Fuck, it was so good… I’ve never been fucked like that before, Craig. It’s not even over and, wagghhhh! I already want it again! Can’t stop thinking about it… It could be so easy. So easy to sell my body for profit, and… and I’d beg them to do it! That can’t be all there is. No way, man. I can’t live with that kind of pressure hanging over me. You gotta tell me! Please, Craig… say it! Tell me there’s more to it! Tell me there’s more to life than just being an omega. Tell me you’re more than just an alpha! I… I want this. But I know it’s so fucked up! I need to know you’ll take care of me because I’m me.”

There’s a disconnect between Tweek’s desperate plea and the calming sensation that comes from the pressure gripping his cock. He wants to tell Tweek to stop so he can think straight, but he also selfishly wishes Tweek could calm down on his own and let him relish in the gratification of the act. Neither choice is the right one, and once again Craig is faced with the burden of blindly trying to do the right thing. Tweek is skillful and relentless, but he’s also miserable and confused. Craig forces himself to think, though the task at hand isn’t an easy one. He wonders how they ended up in this mess. Lying to Tweek is out of the question. That won’t do them any good. But what is the truth?

[21.5/?]

Craig reaches forward on instinct. His hand reaches between his legs and lands on top of Tweek’s. After a few more unsteady strokes, he slows his pace and starts to catch his breath. They’re both shaking with nerves and doubt. Craig wills his eyes to come into focus so he can study his mate. The thoughts and considerations about the situation tumble through his mind. He’s never wanted to be an alpha. He didn’t ask for this. It was just something that happened to him one day, and from that point forward he had to come to terms with his lot in life. A spark of sympathy courses through him. In the end, Tweek is much the same. Not only did he never ask to be an omega, but he also spent most of his life thinking he’d avoided that fate. It must be so confusing for him. It must be so scary and unpredictable. He looks up at Tweek’s worried face and feels a terrible wave of exhausting emotions that overcome him all at once. It’s guilt and comradery and determination in one crushing wave. It’s a sudden sense of understanding and defiance that he wants to embrace.

“I’m not just an alpha,” he informs Tweek as boldly as he can manage, and strangely enough he knows in his bones that he is speaking from the heart.

A weight leaves his shoulders. The burden of a truth he’s been carrying for years on end has lifted. He’s long since gone soft and feels completely ridiculous holding his junk between his legs, so he flips his hand to lace his fingers in between Tweek’s. They sit there for a moment, gripping each other tightly until Tweek’s lip begins to wibble and his shoulders shake. He croaks out a few ragged breaths and a whimper, and then the tears he’s held in for so long spill from his eyes in fat, heavy rivulets.

“Craig…!” he cries out, but it is so clear it comes from a place of relief.

He can’t bear to lay like a limp dish rag for a second longer. Craig sits upright too quickly. His vision blacks out for a moment from the headrush, but he powers through it so he can fling his arms around Tweek’s distorted body. Tweek cries openly onto his shoulder, but it’s less like sobbing and more like the physical manifestation of his anxieties and fears leaving his body. They hold each other close, running aimless paths up and down with their hands in gentle, soothing motions. Soon, the tears run dry and they’re left as nothing more than two strange lovers clinging to the belief that there is hope for them yet.

“C’mere,” Craig finally suggests after some time and guides them both to lay back down in the bed.

Tweek is clearly exhausted, and truth be told that took a lot out of Craig as well. They easily resume their cuddling, as if it’s the easiest thing in the world. It’s as if they’ve been this way all along. But they haven’t. The difference now is there’s no pretense. There’s no underlying obligation guiding them. Each of them, of his own volition and resolute decision, has chosen this. They tangle back up together like a pair of sleepy kittens and Craig kisses the tip of Tweek’s nose before gazing into his gem-like, tear-stained eyes. He asks a fragile question.

“Can we try this again?”

👏👏👏 this was perfect

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